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ELECTIONS.

Section.

1. General elections, when held 2. Officers elected at general

election.

3. Qualification of electors. 4. Persons disqualified.

5. Soldiers and sailors. 6. Privileges of electors. 7. Officers to be elected. 8. Same; Presidential electors. 9. Preference for U. S. senator 10. Ineligibility of county treasurer for three consecutive terms.

11. Proclamation of governor. 12. Notices of election; form. 13. Posting of notice. 14. Opening of polls.

15. Oath of officers of election. 16. By whom administered. 17. Vacancies of officers of election; how filled.

18. Proclamation by judges of election.

19. Ballot box, how kept.

20. Poll books, form.

21. Ballots.

22. Duties of judges of election. 23. Ballot boxes.

24. Preservation of order.

25. Same.

26. Registry in cities of first

class.

27. Challenge of voters.

28. Same; oath of person challenged.

29. Same; question propounded to challenged persons.

30. Refusal to swear.

31. Final oath, challenge not withdrawn.

Section.

32. Residence defined.

33. Canvass by judges. 34. Same.

35. Opening ballot box, excess of ballots.

36. Counting vote.
37. Clerk's tally list.
38. Double ballots.
39. Designation of office.

40. Excess of names on ballots.
41. Surname of candidate.
42. Lists of persons voted for.
43. Returns of election.
44. Poll books, care of.
45. Tie vote for township office.
46. County canvass.

47. Completion of canvass. 48. Certificate of election. 49. Tie vote for county or pre

cinct officer.

50. Returns in senatorial districts.

51. Votes for state officers, etc., how canvassed.

52. Duplicate abstracts to be made.

53. Canvass by state board.
54. Delayed abstracts, messen-
ger for.

55. Abstracts preserved.
56. Meeting of state board.

57. Abstract by state board.
58. Record.

59. Certificate.

60. Certificate to presidential

electors.

61. Meeting of electors. 62. Same.

63. Compensation.

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General elec

tions, when held.

Officers elected.

AN ACT

To provide a general election law, the procedure relative to contested elections, and the filling of vacancies in office.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska :

SECTION 1. The general election of this state shall be held on Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November of each year.

SEC. 2. All state, district, county, precinct and township officers, by the constitution and laws made elective by the people, except school district officers, and munici pal officers in cities and villages, shall be elected at a general election to be held at the time provided in the preceding section.

Qualification of SEC. 3. Every male person of the age of twenty-one

electors.

Persons disqualified.

Soldiers and sailors.

Privileges of electors.

years or upwards, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have resided in the state six months, in the county forty days, and in the precinct, township, or ward ten days, shall be an elector,

First.

Citizens of the United States.

Second. Persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their intention to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States, on the subject of naturalization at least thirty days prior to an election.

SEC. 4. No person shall be qualified to vote who is non compos mentis, or who has been convicted of treason or felony under the law of the state, or of the United States, unless restored to civil rights.

SEC. 5. No soldier, seaman, or marine in the army and navy of the United States, shall be deemed a resident of the state in consequence of being stationed therein.

SEO. 6. Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections, and going to and

returning from the same, and no elector shall be obliged to do military duty on the days of election, except in time of war and public danger.

elected.

SEC. 7. One judge of the supreme court, and two officers to be regents of the university shall be elected in the year 1879, and every second year thereafter, who shall serve for the term of six years. Judges of the district court shall be elected in the year 1879, and every four years thereafter. The governor, lieutenant governor, congressmen, state treasurer, auditor of public accounts, secretary of state, attorney general, commissioner of public lands and buildings, superintendent of public instruction, one district attorney for each judicial district, and members of the legislature shall be elected in the year 1880, and every second year thereafter. thereafter. In counties not under township organization, one county judge, one sheriff, one coroner, one county treasurer, one county clerk, one county surveyor, and one county superintendent of public instruction shall be elected in the year 1879, and every second year thereafter, and in each precinct two justices of the peace and two constables shall be elected in the year 1879, and every second year thereafter, and three judges and two clerks of election, one assessor and one overseer of highways for each road district shall be elected in the year 1879 and annually thereafter, and one county commissioner shall be elected annually, who shall serve three years.

townships.

In counties under township organization, one county In organized judge, one sheriff, one coroner, one county treasurer, one county clerk, one county surveyor, and one county superintendent of public instruction, shall be elected at the first general election after the adoption of township organization, and every second year thereafter. At the first general election in each township after the adoption of township organization, one supervisor, one town clerk, one town treasurer, three judges and two clerks of

Presidential electors.

Preference for
U. S. senator.

election, one assessor, and one overseer of highways for each road district, shall be elected, and annually thereafter; and two justices of the peace and two constables shall be elected at said election, and every second year thereafter; and at the first general election after the adoption of township organization in any county, in each city, and in each village, one supervisor for every one thousand inhabitants therein, one assessor, three judges and two clerks of election shall be elected, and annually thereafter; and in each ward, and in each village having more than five hundred inhabitants, two justices of the peace and two constables shall be elected at said election, and every second year thereafter.

In each county having a population of 8,000 inhab itants, or more, there shall be elected in the year 1879, and every four years thereafter, a clerk of the district. court in and for such county, and in each county having a population of less than 8,000 inhabitants the county clerk shall be ex-officio clerk of the district court, and perform all the duties devolving upon that officer by law.

All county, precinct, and township officers created by statute, or that may be hereinafter created, shall be elected at such general elections as may be provided in the law creating the office or offices.

SEC. 8. Electors of president and vice-president shall be elected at the general election in the year 1880, and every four years thereafter, on such day as congress may appoint, said electors to be chosen from the state at large.

SEC. 9. At the general election immediately preceding the expiration of the term of a United States senator from this state, the electors shall, by ballot, express their preference for some person for the office of United States senator. The votes to be canvassed and returned in the manner hereinafter provided.

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