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17-13-105
Section 17-13-105 Political party to file resolution with Secretary of State. Each political
party authorized to hold a primary and wishing to hold such a presidential preference primary
shall, not less than 116 days before such primary is to be held, adopt and file with the Secretary
of State a resolution stating that intention, the method by which electors are to indicate
one or more preferences, the method by which delegates are to be selected, elected, chosen,
and replaced, and the pledge, if any, by which delegates are to be bound. (Code 1975, §17-18A-7;
Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §7; Acts 1979, No. 79-547, p. 994, §1; Acts 1990, No. 90-699,
p. 1359, §1; §17-16A-6; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65; Act 2015-477,
§1.)...
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17-13-3
Section 17-13-3 Time and place for holding primary elections. (a) Except as otherwise provided
in subsection (b), primary elections, except special primary elections and presidential preference
primaries, held at the expense of the state or counties, shall be held on the fourth Tuesday
in May. When necessary, as provided in this chapter, a second or runoff primary election shall
be held on the fourth Tuesday following the primary election. Any second primary shall be
held by the same election officers who held the first primary, and be held at the same places
as the first primary election. No primary shall be held by any political party except as herein
provided. Primary elections herein provided for shall be held at the regular polling places
established for the purpose of holding general elections. (b) In years in which a presidential
primary is conducted, the primary election shall be the first Tuesday in March. (c) Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, in any year in which...
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11-46-3
Section 11-46-3 Primary elections by political parties and partisan elections abolished in
municipalities having 300,000 inhabitants or less. Primary elections of political parties
are hereby abolished in cities and towns of this state which have a population of 300,000
inhabitants or less, according to the latest federal decennial census, and election of the
members of the municipal governing body of said cities and towns shall be by and on a nonpartisan
ballot in all elections held for the purpose of electing members of the governing body. (Acts
1971, No. 2234, p. 3592.)...
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17-13-42
Section 17-13-42 Political parties may elect whether to participate in primary elections. Primary
elections are not compulsory. A political party may, by its state executive committee, elect
whether it will come under the primary election law. All political parties are presumed to
have accepted and come under the provisions of the primary election law, but any political
party may signify its election not to accept and come under the primary election law by filing
with the Secretary of State, at least 60 days before the date herein fixed for the holding
of any general primary election, a statement of the action of its state executive committee,
certified by its chair and secretary, which statement shall contain a copy of the resolution
or motion adopted declining to accept and come under the primary election law. If a political
party declines to accept and come under the primary election law, it shall not change its
action and accept and come under the primary election law until after...
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17-6-21
Section 17-6-21 Contents; amendments; withdrawal of name. (a) The official ballots shall contain
the names of all candidates nominated by caucus, convention, mass meeting, primary election,
or other assembly of any political party or faction, or by petition of electors and certified
as provided in Section 17-9-3, but no person's name shall be printed upon the ballots who,
within the time period set forth in subsection (c), notifies the judge of probate in writing,
acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments, that he or she will
not accept the nomination specified in the certificate of nomination or petition of electors.
The name of each candidate shall appear but one time on the ballot and under only one emblem.
(b) A nomination for a candidate in a primary or general election shall be finalized by the
respective state executive committees not later than 76 days before the primary or general
election. Any amendment to a certification of a candidate by a...
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17-13-6
Section 17-13-6 Only qualified candidates to be listed on ballots. The name of no candidate
shall be printed upon any official ballot used at any primary election unless such person
is legally qualified to hold the office for which he or she is a candidate and unless he or
she is eligible to vote in the primary election in which he or she seeks to be a candidate
and possesses the political qualifications prescribed by the governing body of his or her
political party. (Acts 1975, No. 1196, p. 2349, §11; §17-16-12; amended and renumbered by
Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §59.)...
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16-9-5
Section 16-9-5 Nomination by political party. Any political party may, in a county where the
county superintendent is elected by a direct vote of the qualified electors, either nominate
a candidate for such office or may certify to the probate judge that said political party
desires to leave the election of a county superintendent of education to the county board
of education. Whenever any political party certifies that such political party desires to
leave the selection of such officer to the county board of education, the probate judge shall
cause to be entered on the ballot where the names of such candidates (if nominated) would
appear, the following: "For selection by the county board of education." Such proposition
shall appear on the ballot before the names of the candidates and be arranged so that the
elector may express his choice for such proposition in the same manner as he expresses his
choice for a candidate. Every qualified elector may vote for such selection by the county...
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17-6-24
Section 17-6-24 Printing and design. (a) All ballots shall be in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter and shall contain a party emblem for each political party represented on the
ticket. The arrangement of the ballot shall in general conform substantially to the plan hereinafter
given, and in all cases the party columns must be placed in alphabetical order, beginning
on the left of the ballot. The list of candidates of the several parties shall be printed
in parallel and perpendicular columns, each column to be headed by the chosen device of such
party and the party name or other designation in such order as the Secretary of State may
direct. The number of columns shall exceed by one the number of separate tickets of candidates
to be voted for at the polling place for which the ballot is provided, and in the appropriate
place the words vote for one (or two or other number, as the case may be) to indicate the
number which may be elected to each office. On the right of each...
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17-9-3
Section 17-9-3 Persons entitled to have names printed on ballots; failure of Secretary of State
to certify nominations. (a) The following persons shall be entitled to have their names printed
on the appropriate ballot for the general election, provided they are otherwise qualified
for the office they seek: (1) All candidates who have been put in nomination by primary election
and certified in writing by the chair and secretary of the canvassing board of the party holding
the primary and filed with the judge of probate of the county, in the case of a candidate
for county office, and the Secretary of State in all other cases, on the day next following
the last day for contesting the primary election for that office if no contest is filed. If
a contest is filed, then the certificate for the contested office must be filed on the day
next following the date of settlement or decision of the contest. (2) All candidates who have
been put in nomination by any caucus, convention, mass meeting,...
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17-16-30
Section 17-16-30 Returning officers. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTIONS 17-13-12
AND 17-17-49 BY ACT 2006-570 IN THE 2006 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2007. The sheriff
shall perform the duty of returning officer as in general elections, unless someone else has
been named and designated as authorized by law. It shall be his duty or the duty of such returning
officer as may be otherwise legally named and designated, as the case may be, to return and
deliver to the chairman of the county executive committee of each of the political parties
participating in the primary election, at the office of the judge of probate at the county
seat, the ballot boxes and returns which have been delivered to him by the officers of said
election, and such ballot boxes and returns shall not be allowed to leave his possession and
must be returned by him to such chairman not later than 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday following
said primary election. Each and all persons failing to perform...
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