Ch. 33, 34) State Canvas 109 by Section 1964, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913 and the session laws of 1915 and Section 1 of this act. Sec. 10. Amendment. That Section 2090, Revised Statutes. of 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: 2090 Sec. 152. Canvas by legislature. The votes cast for United States Senator, congressman, regents, judges of the supreme and district courts, all state officers and all questions under the constitution voted upon by the whole people, shall be canvassed by the legislature at its next regular session. Sec. 11. Repeal.-That said original Sections 1964, 1968, 2207, 2271, 2077, 2081, 2083, 2084 and 2090, Revised Statutes of 1913; Section 2020, Revised Statutes of 1913, as amended by Section 8, Chapter 31, Session Laws of 1915; and Section 1990, Revised Statutes of 1913, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 31, Session Laws of 1915, are hereby repealed, and Sections 2149 and 2150, Revised Statutes of 1913, are hereby repealed. Approved, April 12, 1917. CHAPTER 34. (House Roll No. 109.) [Introduced by Messrs. Taylor, Greenwalt, Lampert, Lemar, Burrows, Dalbey, Scudder, Stuhr, Harris, and Hostetler.] AN ACT to amend and repeal Section 1993, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913, as amended by Chapter 30 of the Session Laws of 1915, relating to the arrangement of the names on ballots. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment.-That Section 1993, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913, as amended by Chapter 30, Session Laws of 1915, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1993 Sec. 55. Elections-arrangement of names on ballots. -The names of candidates for each office shall be arranged as follows: The party polling the highest number of votes at the last general election for the first set of candidates on the state ticket, shall have the name of its nominee immediately beneath the name of the office of for which such candidate was nominated, the party polling the second highest number of votes shall have the second place, the party having the third highest place number shall have the third place, and so on, leaving those candidates whose names appear upon said ballot by petition, to appear beneath all other candidates placed there by nomination. The party named at the top of the ballot shall have the same order of priority as is herein provided for names of party candidates. In counties having a population of 20,000 or more, names of nominees of each party where there are more than one nominee for the same office shall be rotated according to the following plan: The form shall be set in the order in which they are placed upon the sample ballot prepared by the county clerk. In printing the tickets for the various election districts the positions of the names shall be changed in each office division for each election district. In making the changes of position the printer shall take the line of type at the head of each office division and place it at the bottom of that division, shoving up the column so that the name that was second before the change shall be the first after the change. Sample ballots shall be printed in the same way. Sec. 2. Repeal.-That Section 1993, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913, as amended by Chapter 30, Session Laws of 1915, is hereby repealed. Approved, March 23, 1917. CHAPTER 35. (House Roll No. 194.) [Introduced by Mr. Fries.] AN ACT to amend Section 2158, Revised Statutes for 1913, and to repeal said original section. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment.-That Section 2158, Revised Statutes for 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: Ch. 35, 36) Constitutional Convention 111 2158 Sec. 220. Candidate for but one party. The name of any candidate may appear on one or more of the party tickets if the proper filings have been made. But where a candidate seeks nomination on two or more tickets, if he loses the nomination of the majority party, he shall not be permitted to accept the nomination of the minority party, unless the vote received by him from such minority party was in excess of the vote received by him from the majority party. No candidate defeated at the primary election shall be permitted to file by petition in the general election next following. Sec. 2. Repeal. That said original Section 2158, Revised Statutes for 1913, is hereby repealed. AN ACT to amend Section 2174, Revised Statutes of 1913, relating to elections, and to repeal said original section. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment. That Section 2174, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: 2174 Sec. 236. Constitutional convention or amendmenthow submitted at primary.—At the general primary election next preceding any general election at which any constitutional amendment, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, shall by law be required to be submitted to the electors of the state, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state at the same time that he shall certify the names of candidates for state officers to the county clerks, likewise to certify to such county clerks any such amendment or amendments, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, to be submitted at the general election, and it shall be the duty of the county clerks to cause to be printed on the primary election ballots of all political parties the question of such constitutional amendments, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, in the same manner and form as they are required to be printed on the official general election ballots, and each elector may declare himself in favor of or against any such amendments, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, the same as at such general election. The election boards in the various precincts shall make returns of the number of votes in favor of and against any such amendment, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, to the county clerk at the same time and in the same manner as upon candidates for nomination, and such returns shall be canvassed by the county canvassing boards with other returns, and the county clerks shall make returns to the secretary of state of the votes upon such amendments, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, with the other returns of this article. Such returns shall be canvassed by the state canvassing board, and if a majority of the electors of any party voting upon such amendment shall declare in favor of or against any such amendment, or the question of the calling of a constitutional convention, such declaration shall be considered as a portion of the ticket of such party and shall be so certified by him to the various county clerks. Sec. 2. Repeal. That said original Section 2174, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby repealed. Approved, April 25, 1917. CHAPTER 37. (House Roll No. 23.) [Introduced by Messrs. Ollis, Radke, Fleetwood and Haase.] AN ACT relating to the non-partisan nomination and election of the state superintendent of public instruction, county superintendents and regents of the State University, and amending Sections 2209, 2210, and 2211, Revised Statutes of 1913, and to repeal said original sections. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment.-That Sections 2209, 2210, and 2211, Revised Statutes of 1913 are hereby amended to read as follows: Ch. 37) Non-Partisan Elections 113 2209 Sec. 271. Non partisan election-judicial-schools.The judges of the supreme court of the State of Nebraska, the judges of the district court and county judges, state superintendent of public instruction, county superintendents and regents of the State University, shall hereafter be nominated, regardless of political affiliation in the manner following: At least ten days prior to the date of holding the general primary election in the State of Nebraska, all candidates for supreme judge, for district judge, and county judge, state superintendent of public instruction, county superintendents and regents of the State University. shall file with the officer whose duty it is to issue the certificate of election to the aforesaid officers, a statement of such candidate, in substantially the following form, to-wit: PETITION AND AFFIDAVIT OF CANDIDATE FOR STATE OF NEBRASKA COUNTY OF.. SS. at. I, county of. ,being first duly sworn, say that I reside I am legally qualified to hold said office; that I am a candidate for the nomination for the office of... voted upon at the primary election to be held on the.. day of.. to be 19........, and I hereby request that my name be printed upon the official primary ballot for the nomination at such primary election, for the office of.. Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said. this...day of.. 19......... And such person if he be a candidate for supreme judge, shall, at the same time, file with such statement a petition signed by two thousand five hundred duly qualified voters of the State of Nebraska; and if such person be a candidate for the office of district judge, file a petition signed by not less than five per cent of the duly qualified voters residing within said judicial district; and if such person be a candidate for the office of county judge, he shall file a petition signed by not less than ten per cent of the duly qualified electors within said county; and if |