Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-04-13
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Wevada's New
Election Law.
yuTfas SHOULD READ AND sTdof IIs
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections Il" she
ru,ure if the law ~ Observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
TIE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved March 10, 1891
The People OF the State Of Nevada, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly do en-
act as follows:
SECTION 1. Ali ballots cast in elections
~ nuhlio officers within his State shall
pe printed and distributed at public ex-
n,nse. as hereinafter provided. Inc
printing OF general tickets and cards Oh
instruction for the electors OF each county
aud the delivery Of the same TO tne eiec-
tion officers, as provided for IN THIS ACT,
shall be q county charge, the payment OF
which shall BIO provided for in the same
manner as the payment OF other county
expenses, and in ease OF separate eiec'ionS
for city, town or district officers, the print
inc ana delivery of tickets aud cards OF
ABSTRACTION shall be charged upon the city,
town or district in which said tickets and
cards are to be used, the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the pay ment OF other CITY,
county or district expenses.
SEC. a. Any convention, 90 hereinafter
efined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public Office, n also
electors 10 the number hereinafter speci-
ded. may nominate candidates for public
offices, to be filed by election within the
State, A convention within the meaning
OF this ACT is an organized Assem- bisge OF
delegates representing a political parry,
which, at the last election, before the
holding OF such convention, poiied ~
least three per cent OF the entire vote cas'
in the State, county, district or other poii.-
ical division, for which the nomination 10
made.
SEC. Q, All nominations made by such
con ysntion shall be certified as follows:
The certificate Of nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nominated, his residence and
office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle wnich
such convention represents. IL shall be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary OF
suoh 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 beat of their knowledge and
belief, and q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate oil
nomination.
sgo. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by a
convention in the manner following: A
ertidcate 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
TO be presen ted, equal in number to at
least three per cent Of the entire vote cast
at the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nominstion 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, and GER
tiicate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate OF nomina-
ton made by u party convention. .
SEQ. 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. Cert-
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
a district embraces more than one county,
such certificates shall be filed with the
CLERK OF each Of said counties.
SEQ. 9. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name of more than one
candidate for each office to be filled. No
person shall Join in nominating. under
the provision Of Section 4 of this Act,
more than one nominee for each office to
be filled, and no person who has voted In
convention, either in person OF by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any office,
shall Join In nominating. in any manner,
any other nominee for that office, and no
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 is
made by Q convention, and not more b
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day OF election when the nomination
IL made under the provisions OF section
four Of this Act. should q vacancy occur
from any cause in the list of nominees for
any office. such vacancy may be filled al any
time before the day Of election by the con-
vention, or by q committee to which the
convention has delegated the power to
fill vacancies, or by petitions, as provided
in section four Of this Act. The Chair
man and Secretary Of the convention. or
Of such com mittee, 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 he is nominated. the name
OF the person for whom the new nominee ia
is to be substituted, and such further infor-
nation as ia required TO be given in an
original certificate OF nomination. When
such certificate Ia filed, the officer with
whom ID is filed shall substitute the name OF
the person therein for the o~risinai nomi.
nee. by printing, il practicable, or by writ
ing the name Of the person thus substi-
tuted.
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five days
before an election to fill 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 ia nomin.
ated, as specified in the certificate OF
nomination filed with him.
SEC. o. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
ices, the County Clerk shall cause TO be
published all the nominations certified to
or fled with him. Said nominations shall
be published in q newspaper printed with
in the county. When no newspaper 10
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. sffeasttwo 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-