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office, and also voters to the number hereinafter specified, may
nominate candidates for public office, to be filled by election
within the State. A convention or primary meeting, within
the meaning of this article, is an organized assemblage of
delegates or voters, representing a political party or principle
which at the last election before the holding of such conven-
tion, polled at least one per cent, of the entire vote cast in the
State, county or other division or district for which the nomi-
•nation is made. Nominations may be made by means oi
primary elections without the intervention of any convention,
by any party which, at the last preceding election polled the
requisite proportion of votes as hereinbefore specified.
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37. All nominations made by such convention or primary
meeting shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nom-
ination shall be in writing, shall contain the name of each
person nominated, his residence, his business, his business
address and the office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate, in not more than five words the party or principle
which such convention or primary meetings represent. It
shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such
convention, who shall add to their signatures their respective
places of residence, their business and business address, and
acknowledge the same before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such
acknowledgment thereto. If the nomination is by means of a
primary election, the certificate shall be signed and acknowl-
edged by the person or persons whose duty it may be, by
party usage, to declare the result of such election in the man-
ner prescribed for a nomination by a convention. A party
emblem or device may be added to the certificate, provided, it
shall be referred to and identified in said acknowledgment. It
may consist of one object or of several objects in combination,
and when printed on its proper ballot, shall not occupy more
than two and one-half inches in height and two inches in
breadth. Said emblem must not, in the judgment of the offi-
cer or officers with whom the certificate is filed, too closely
resemble any other party emblem previously designated.
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38. A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise
than by a convention or primary election in the manner follow-
ing: A certificate of nomination containing the names of a
candidate for the office to be filled, with such information as is
required to be given in certificates provided for in section 37
of this article, with the additional statement that the persons
signing the same intend to vote for the person to be nominated
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primaries.
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