Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-07-20
AUSTRALIAN DALLOT'
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND srsot ns
PROVISIONS.
Falr. and Clean Elections In the
rusure If the n Is observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELbOAAOrS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved march, Is, 1871
The People Of the State Of Nevada. rep
resented In Senate md Assembly, do en-
sct ss follows:
SECTION /. All ballots cast 10 elections
NJ, nnhIio officers within this State shall
ne printed and distributed at public ex-
nense. a. hereinafter provided. The
nrintiug Of general tickets aud cards oil
Instruction for the electors Of each county,
and the delivery OF the same 10 the cleo
tion officers, as provided for In this Act.
shall be q county charge, the payment OF
which shall be provided for in the same
tanner az the payment OF other county
,xpenses. and In case of separate elections
for oity. town or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards OF
instruction shall be charged upon the CITY,
town or district in which said tickets sno
cards are 10 be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner as the payment Of other eity'
county or district expenses.
Sgc. 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
efned, held for the purpose OF MAKING
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electors 10 the number hereinafter speci-
fed. may nominate candidates for public
offices, 20 be filed By election within the
State. A convention within the meaning
of this Act is an organized assemblsge OF
delegates representing Q political party
which, al the last election, before the
holding OF such convention, poiled OIL
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
10 the State, county, district or other polit-
- aivision, for which the nomination Is
ions made by such
srti6ed IS follows:
nation, which must
ntain the name OF
1, his residence and
dominated, and shall
designate .uo or principle which
such convention represents. II shall be
signed By the Chair maa and Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized 10 administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the best Of their knowledge and
belief, and q certificate OF ths said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by q
onvention in the manner following: A
ertifcate Of nomination containing the
name OF the candidate to be nominated,
with the other information required TO be
given in the certificate provided for in Sec
ton three OF this Act, shall be signed by
electors residing within the district or
political division for which candidates are
10 be presented, equal in number to at
least three per cent Of the entire vote cast
al the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination is to be made; provided. that
suoh certificate shall not be valid unless
signed by three voters. Said signatures
need not all be appended TO one paper, but
each signer shall add to his signature his
place OF residence. One OF the signers OF
each such certificate shall swear that the
statements therein made are true to the
best Of his knowledge and belief, anda GER
tiicate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Suoh certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate of nomina'
ton made by q party convention.
SEC. 5. Certificates Of nomination OF
candidates for offices TO be voted for by
the electors of the entire State, shall be
filed with the Secretary OF State. Certi.
fcates Of nomination OF candidates for al
other public offices shall be fled with the
Clerks OF the respective counties wherein
the officers are 10 be voted for, and where
q district embraces more than one county,
such certificates shall be filed with the
CLERK OF each Of said counties.
SEC. 8. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name OF more than one
candidate for each Office to be filed. Nc
person shall join in nominating. under
the provision OF Section 4 of this Act
more than one nominee for each Office to
be filed, and no person who has voted In
aconvention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any office,
shall join in nominating. in any manner
any other nominee for that office, and nc
person shall accept q nomination TO more
than one office.
SEQ. Z. Certificates OF nomination re
quired to be filed with the Secretary Of
State shall not be filed more than sixty
days nor less than forty days before the
day OF election when the nomination Ii
made by Q convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
is made under the provisions OF section
four of this Act. Should q vacancy occur
from any cause in the list Of nominees fol
any office. such vacancy may be filled al any
time before the day OF election by the CON
v~ention. or by . committee TO which the
convention has delegated the power IL
fill vacancies. or by petitions. as provided
In section four Of this Act. The Chair
man and Secretary of the convention, oil
of such committee, or such petitioners
shall make and file with the proper Officer
certificate, setting forth the name Of the
person nominated TO fill such vacancy, tht
office for which lie Is nominated, the namt
- A. ~.N fnr 4bnro tha I'M q. ~ an Il
is 10 be substituted, and such further infor
nation as is required to be given in ar
original certificate of nomination. Wher
such certificate is filed, the officer will
whom 1t is filed shall substitute the name Of
the person therein for the original nomi
nee. by printing. il practicable. or by writ
ing the name OF the person thus substi
tuted.
SEC. 8. Not less thar twenty-five day
before an election TO fill any public Office
the Secretary Of State shall certify to ths
County Clerk OF each county within the
State the name OF each person, and the
name Of the Office for which he Ia nomin'
ated, as specified in the certificate OIL
nomination filed with him.
SEC. 8. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
foes, the County Clerk shall cause to be
published all the nominations certified to
or filed with him. Said nominations shall
be published in q newspaper printed with.
In the county. When no newspaper ia
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting a copy OF the
ballot In Q public place in each election
precinct within the county. one Of which
copies shall be posted at the courthouse
door. When publication is made by print
ing in newspapers. at least two publications
by such newspapers shall be required. one
of which shall appear in the last regular
issue OF such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. When a proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques-
ton is TO be submitted for popular vote.
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
same TO the several County Clerks. and said