Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Certification of Nominations. [ARTICLE]

Certification of Nominations.

Under the Australian election law all nominations for offices to be filled next November must be certified to by the officers of the nominating conventions to the various election boards. The nominations made by the state convention are certified to the governor by the chairman and secretary. Nominations made by county conventions must be certified to the county clerk. The nomination of a representative in congress must be certified to each county clerk of the congressional district. The same is true of a nomination for joint senator, representative, circuit judge or prosecuting attorney. These certificates of nominations must be filed not later than thirty days before the election. But there is no necessity of delaying until the last moment the filing of nominations made early in the campaign. The execution of the certificates by the chairman and the secretary of the convention must be acknowledged before a notary public or before some other officer vested with a power to administer oath. The chairman or secretary of an early convention might remove from the state or county or absent himself during 9 long period, and for this reason certificates should be made out as soon as the convention adjourns. Chairman Taggart, of the state committee, will furnish blank certificates upon application.