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Polls open continuously

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Count of vote, how

try agent, his politics or the political party to which he belongs.

SEC. 15. The voter shall designate his choice on the ballot by stamping a cross (X) opposite and to the right of the printed name of each candidate for delegate for whom he desires to vote. If he shall stamp more names than there are candidates for delegates to be elected, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine his choice, his ballot shall not be counted for such delegates, but the rest of his ballot, if properly stamped, shall be counted. No ballot shall be rejected for any technical error which does not render it impossible to determine the voter's choice.

SEC. 16. When a voter has stamped his ballot, he shall fold it so that its face shall be concealed, and hand the same to a member of the board in charge of the ballot-box. Such folded ballot shall be placed in the ballot-box in the presence of the voter, and the name of the voter checked upon the register as having voted.

SEC. 17. No adjournment or intermission whatever shall take place until the polls shall be closed and until all votes cast at such polls shall be counted and the result publicly announced, but this shall not be deemed to prevent any temporary recess while taking meals or for the purpose of other necessary delay; provided, that no more than one member of the board shall at any time be absent from the polling-place. SEC. 18. As soon as the polls have finally closed the judges must immediately proceed to canvass the votes cast at such conducted; primary election. The canvass must be public, and must be continued without adjournment until completed, and the result thereof declared. Except as herein otherwise provided, the canvass shall be conducted, completed, and returned as in the case of general elections. The board must take the ballots from the box and count all the votes cast for each party candidate for delegate and record the same on separate tally-lists for each party, and immediately mail said tally-lists and ballots by registered mail to the county clerk; provided, that in the case of precincts within five miles from the county-seat, delivering of tally-lists and ballots may be made personally.

must be

public

Official

canvass by county commissioners

SEC. 19. The board of county commissioners of each county shall meet at the usual place at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of the first Friday after such primary election to canvass the returns. If, at the time of meeting, the returns from each precinct in each county in which polls were open have been received, the board must then and there proceed to canvass the returns; but if all the returns have not been received the board may adjourn to 1 o'clock in the afternoon of the following Monday, when the canvass shall begin and be continued until completed, which shall not be later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the tenth day following such primary election.

The clerk of the board shall, as soon as the result is declared record result enter upon the records of the board a statement of the result,

Clerk to

which shall contain the whole number of votes cast for each person for delegate in each political party, and a duplicate as to each political party shall be delivered to the respective county chairman of the political parties, as the case may be. The county clerk in any county shall forthwith send to the Result sent secretary of state, by registered mail, a separate list of the of state and delegates of each political party elected to the respective state state chairconventions, and the secretary of state shall make and deliver a copy thereof to the respective chairmen of the state central committees.

to secretary

men

delegates,

SEC. 20. The persons receiving the highest number of votes Tie vote for at a primary election for delegate or delegates shall be entitled now decided to a seat in the respective party convention or conventions. If the vote for two or more delegates be a tie and it be necessary to determine such tie in order to entitle one or more of such delegates to a seat in the convention, such tie shall be determined by the county central committee after reasonable notice of a time and place for such determination given to all persons having such tie vote; provided, that such persons receiving a tie vote may contest before the convention, and shall be entitled to a seat in the convention in the absence of the person entitled to the seat by the decision of the committee. SEC. 21. On the third Tuesday in September following the County conprimary, at the hour of 11 a. m., the delegates of each political vention, how party entitled to seats in a party county convention shall con- held vene at the county-seat of such county at such place as the county central committee shall designate, and there organize and adopt a county party platform and elect a county committee to consist of not less than one nor more than three committeemen from each voting precinct. Such convention shall also proceed to nominate party candidates for all county and To nominate precinct offices to be filled by electors of the county and the officers several townships therein.

and when

County

mitteemen;

SEC. 22. The county committeemen shall hold office for the County comterm of two years, and until their successors are elected. A term, 2 years vacancy in such committee may be filled by the remaining members. Each such committee may select an executive committee and shall choose its officers by ballot, and each committee and its officers shall have the powers usually exercised by said committees and the officers thereof in so far as may be consistent with this act. The various officers and committees now in existence shall exercise the powers and perform the duties herein prescribed until their successors are chosen in accordance with the provisions of this act.

conventions

SEC. 23. On the first Tuesday in September after any State party August primary election the delegates of each political party held at state elected to the state party convention shall convene at the state capitol capitol, or such other place as the state central committee shall designate, at 11 o'clock a. m., and shall formulate the state platform of their party. The delegates from the counties to the state convention from counties making up districts of two

committee.

or more counties shall nominate the district judge and other district officers, which nominations shall be certified by the state convention as other nominations.

Such convention shall also proceed to elect a state central State central committee, to consist of at least three members from each how selected county, who shall hold office until a new state central committee shall have been elected. Such state central committee shall meet and organize at a time and place to be designated by the body selecting such state central committee, and such committee may then or thereafter select an executive committee.

Such convention shall also proceed to nominate candidates To nominate for all offices to be filled by the electors of the entire state.

state can

didates

Proxies

allowed only

SEC. 24. Delegates to state and county conventions may be represented by proxies duly appointed; provided, that a delein case of gate shall not be entitled to appoint a proxy except in case of unavoidable inability to attend in person the convention; provided further, that no person shall be entitled to act as a proxy in a convention unless he or she be a qualified elector and bona fide resident of the county or precinct he represents.

absences

Party nominations

SEC. 25. The chairman and secretary of state, district, and county conventions, respectively, shall make a certified list, certified to duly verified, of all party nominations. The certificate of proper public state and district nominations shall be filed with the secretary of state, and that of county and township nominations shall be filed with the county clerk.

officials

SEC. 26. Vacancies in nominations occurring for any Vacancies in cause after the holding of any party convention shall be filled how filled by the party committee of the county, or state, as the case may be.

nominations,

SEC. 27. The general election laws, in so far as they are General elec- applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act, shall apply to primary elections.

tion laws to govern

No fees for filing certificates

SEC. 28. No fee shall be charged for filing certificates of nominations made by a convention. Candidates for delegates to conventions shall at the time of filing their certificate of candidacy pay to the clerk a filing fee of one dollar and the clerk shall issue to him a receipt therefor.

SEC. 29. This act shall be liberally construed to the end Act liberally that the real intent of the electors shall prevail.

construed

Act not to apply to delegates

to national conventions

SEC. 30. The provisions of this act with reference to delegates to state conventions shall not apply to conventions held for the selection of delegates to national conventions and in such conventions the state central committee of the party may prescribe such rules and regulations as it may deem best.

NOMINATIONS BY PETITION

A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise than by convention in the manner following:

A certificate of nomination shall be signed by electors within the state, district, or political subdivision for which the candi

for public office by

per cent of

required

dates are to be presented, equal in number to at least ten per Nominations cent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding general election in the state, district, or political subdivision for which petition: 10 the nomination is made; provided, that such certificate shall last vote contain the signatures of at least five electors. 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 and the signatures therein set forth are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. The certificate of nomination herein provided shall state the name of the principle, if any, which the person nominated by petition represents, but in so doing the name of no political party as defined by this act existing at the last preceding general election shall be used.

regarding

Such certificates of nomination for officers to be voted for by Regulations the electors of the entire state or by districts composed of two filing ceror more counties shall be filed with the secretary of state; all tificates of others shall be filed with the clerk of the county wherein the officers are to be voted for.

Such certificates of nomination as provided in this section shall be filed on or before the first Tuesday in September preceding the election, and no person shall be nominated by such certificate or petition who has been a candidate before any convention of any political party as herein defined.

nomination

No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than one candidate for each office to be filled, and no person shall sign such certificate or petition who has voted in any convention, either in person or by proxy, for or against any candidate for office. No fees shall be charged for filing such No fees certificate or petition.

declared by

are offenses

act

SEC. 31. Any act or omission declared to be an offense by All offenses the general laws of this state concerning general elections general elecshall also, in like case, be an offense concerning elections as tion laws provided for by this act, and shall be punished in the same under this manner and form as therein provided, and all penalties and provisions of the law governing elections, except as herein otherwise provided, shall apply in equal force to elections as provided for by this act. Wilful failure or refusal of any officer to perform the duties prescribed in this act shall be a gross misdemeanor, and in addition to the punishment prescribed by law, shall subject such officer to removal from office. SEC. 32. The pronoun "he," used herein, shall be construed "He" and intended to mean "he" or "she."

includes "she"

SEC. 33. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby expressly repealed.

Amending crimes and punishments

act

Gambling games and slotmachines played for money prohibited

horse, five hundred,

solo, and whist excepted

CHAP. 284-An Act to amend section 253 of an act entitled
"An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing
certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, and
all acts and parts of acts supplementary thereto and amen-
datory thereof. [Approved March 29, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 253 of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 253. It shall be unlawful for any person to deal, play or carry on, open or conduct, in any capacity whatever, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, hokey-pokey, craps, klondyke, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, property, checks, credit, or any representative of value; or any gambling game in which any person keeping, conducting, managing or permitting the same to be carried on receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation or reward, or any percentage or share of the money or property played, for keeping, running, carrying on or permitting the said game to be carried on; or to play, maintain or keep, any slot machine played for money or for checks or tokens redeemable in money, or to buy, sell or deal in pools, or make books on horse-races, save and Poker, stud- except the playing of poker, stud-horse poker, five hundred, solo and whist, when the deal alternates and no percentage taken and that any and all racing associations and corporations which shall obtain license to conduct race meetings in the State of Nevada, pursuant to law, may carry on and permit within the inclosure where horse-racing is held, betting horse-racing upon the races conducted within said inclosure by and through the paris mutual system of betting; and any person who violates any of the above provisions shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than one year nor more than five years. Every person who shall play at any game whatsoever, other than those hereinabove excepted, for money, property or gain, with cards, dice or any other device which may be adapted to or used in playing any game of chance, or in which chance is a material element, or who shall bet or wager on the hands or cards orsides of such as do play as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a felony; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as prohibiting social games played, only for drinks and cigars served individually, or for prizes of a value not to exceed two dollars, nor nickel-in-the-slot machines for the sale of cigars and drinks and no playback allowed.

Licensed

excepted

Felony

Social

games

and merchandise

machines

excepted

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