Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-11-02
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND sIsof ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair; and Clean Elections In the
ruture m the Law Is Observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
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 and Assembly, do en-
act % follows:
srorroS 1. All ballots cast in elections
or publio officers within this State shall
ne printed and distributed ct public ex-
nense. ss hereinafter provided. The
printing Of general tickets and cards oil
Instruction for the electors OF each county
ana the delivery OF the same to the cleo
ton officers, 90 provided for in this Act.
shall be . county charge. the payment oil
which shall be provided for In the same
manner a. the payment OF other county
expenses, and in case OF separate eiections
for city, town or district officers, the prins.
ing aud delivery Of tickets and CARDS OF
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
tovn or district in which said tickets and
cards are 20 be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment OF other city,
count or district expenses.
SEo. q. Any convention, as hereinafter
eined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public ofhce, ano also
electors 10 the number hereinafter speci-
fed, may nominate candidates for public
offices. 10 be filed by election within the
state. A convention within the meaning
OF this Act Is an organized sssemblsge OF
delegates representing Q political party,
which, AZ the last election, before the
holding Of such convention, polled at
least three per cent Of the entire vote cast
10 the State, county. district or other poiit-
ioal division, for which the nomination Is
made. (
SEC. 8. All nominations made by such
convention shall be certified as follows:
The certificate Of nomination, which u
be in writing, shall contain She name OF
esch person nominated, his residence and
office for which he is nominated. and shall
designate the party or principle which
such convention represents. II shall be
signed by the CHAIR man and Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized to administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the best OF their knowledge and
belief, aud Q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed TO said certificate OF
nomination.
SEQ. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by u
o~nvention in the manner following: A
ertifcate Of nomination containing the
name of the candidate 10 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
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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
such 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
tihoate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect Is 9 certificate OF nomins-
ton made by q party convention.
SEQ. s.. 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. Oerti.
icates Of nomination OF candidates for all
other public Offices shall be filed with the
clerks Of the respective counties wherein
the officers are TO 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.
SEQ. 6. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name Of more than ont
candidate for each Office to be filled. Nc
person shall join 10 nominating. under
the provision Of Section 4 Of this Act,
more than one nominee for each Office tc
be filled, and no person who has voted In
convention, either in person or by proxy
for or against o candidate for any Office
shall join in nominating. in any manner
any other nominee for that office, and nc
person shall accept . nomination to more
than one office.
SRo.7 z. Certificates OF nomination re
quired to be fled with the Secretary OIL
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 thar thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
Ia made under the provisions OF section
four OF this Act. Should . vacancy occul
from any cause in the list OF nominees fol
any office. such vacancy may be filled al AM
time before the day Of election by the oon
vention, or by . committee to which the
convention has delegated the power tc
all 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, the
office for which lie Is nominated. the nam
Of the person for whom the new nominee i.
IL 10 be substituted, and such further infor
nation % Is required to be given in az
original certificate OF nomination. When
such certificate Is filed, the officer with
whom II IL fled shall substitute the name oil
the person therein for the original nomi
nee. by printing, il practicable. or by writ.
ing the name Of the person thus substi'
tuted.
SEQ. 8. Not less than twenty-five days
before an election TO I'LL any public office
the Secretary OF State shall certify to the
County Clerk Of each county within the
State the name Of each person, and the
name OF the Office for which he is nomin-
ated. 90 specified in the certificate oil
nomination fled with him.
SEC. 8. Not less than ten days before
an oiectlou W III euy puDiic omco Ut VI
foes, the County Clerk shall cause to be
published ell the nominations certified to
or 6led with him. Said nominations shall
be published in Q newspaper printed with
In the county. When no newspaper is
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting q copy Of the
ballot in . public place in each election
precinct within the comfy. u Of which
copies shall be posted At the courthouse
door. When publication is made by print
ing in newspapers, at easttwo 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 . proposed Constitution.
constitutional amendment or other ques-
tiou is to be submitted for popular vote.
ths Secretary Of State shall certify the
same to the several County Clerks. and said
Oor,kv Nlarks shali pub1ian the aama "A