Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-01-12
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Fall Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND srsoY iIs
PROVISIONS.
Fatr aud Clean Elections In 'he
r.,ure n the Law Is Observed.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

Approved March i3, ls9l.l
The People Of The State Of Nevada, rep
resented in senate and Assembly, do en-
sct as follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast in elections
or public officers within this State shall
De printed and distributed a. public ex-
psnss, a. hereinafter provided. Ine
printing OF general tickets aud cards OF
ins,ruction for the electors Of each county,
and the delivery Of the Same TO the eiec-
lion officers, as provided for IN this Act.
shall be a county charge. the payment OF
which shall be provided for IN the same
manner as the pay OF other county
EXPENSES, and in case OF separate elections
for city, tow or district officers, the pTint-
lug snd delivery Of tickets aud cards Of
instruction shall be charged upon the ci'y,
town or district In which said tickets ana
cards are 10 be used. the payment oil
which shall be provided for IN the sane
manner as the payment OF other city'
county or district expenses.
SIC. 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
eiued, held for the purpose Of making
nominations for public office. and also
electors TO the number hereinafter speci-
fed, may nominate candidates for public
offices, 10 be filed by election within she
State. A convention within the meaning
OF this Act is an organized assenblage oil
delegates representing 9 political party,
which, at the last election, before the
holding OF such convention, polled at
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
in the State, county, district or other poiit-
ical division, for which the nomination Is
made.
SEC. 8. All nominations male by such
convention 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 which
such convention represents. Ii shall be
signed by the Chair man aud Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places Of resi-
dence, aud make oath before an officer
authorized to administer the came, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true TO the beat OF their knowledge aud
belief. and a certificate OF the ssid oath
shall be ANNEXED 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherw wise b by a
%onvention in the manue following: 4
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
TO be presented, 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
nomination ia to be made; provided. that
such certificate shall not be valid unless
signed by three voters. Said signatures
need not sl 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 aud belief, and a GER
tifcate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Suoh certificate 0: nomination shall havo
the same effect as 3 certificate Of nomina-
ton made by q party convention.
SEQ. 5. Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates for offices to be voted for by
the electors Of the entire State, shall DO
filed with the Secretary Of State. Certi-
hcates OF nomination Of candidates for all
other public Offices shall be filed with tho
Clerks OF the respective counties wherein
the officers are 10 be voted Tor. and where
district embraces more than one county,
such certificates shall be fled With tho
Clerk Of each Of said counties.
SEQ. 8. No certificate OF domination
shall contain the name Of more than one
candidate for each Office TO be filed. No
person shall Join 10 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
soonyention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against a candidate for any Office,
shall Join in nominating. in any msnner
any other nominee for that Office, and no
person shall accept Q nomination 10 more
than one Office.
Scot. Certificates OF nomination re.
quired to be fled wish 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 IL
made by Q convention, aud not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
/, made under the provisions Of section
four Of this Act. Should q vacancy OCCUR
from any cause in the list OF nominees for
any oadce, such vacancy may be filled at any
time bcfore the day OF election by the con-
vention. or by a 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 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 name
of the person for whom the new nominee Is
is to be substituted, and such further infor-
nation as is required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomination. When
such certificate Is filed, the officer with
whom ID is iled 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 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 is 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
fees, the County Clerk shall cause TO be
published sill the nominations certified to
OF 6lsd with him. Said nominations shall
be published In a newspaper printed with
10 the county. When no newspaper is
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made BY posting = copy OF the
ballot 10 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 W 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 dues-
tion is TO be submitted for popular vote,
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
same 10 the several County Clerks. and said
County Clerks shall publish the same as
provided for In section 0 OF this Act.
SEC. IL. II shah be the duty OF the
Connty Clerk to provide printed ballots