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17-13-102
Section 17-13-102 Petition requirements. In order to qualify the name of any person to appear
on the ballot at a presidential preference primary, a petition or petitions in support of
his or her candidacy shall be filed with the state party chair of the appropriate political
party, hereinafter referred to as "chair," 116 days prior to the presidential preference
primary election. To comply with this section, a candidate may file a petition or petitions
signed by a total of not less than 500 qualified electors of the state, or petitions signed
by not less than 50 qualified electors of each congressional district of the state, in which
case there shall be a separate petition for each congressional district. The petitions shall
be in such form as the chair may prescribe; provided, that there shall be a space for the
county of residence of each signer next to the space provided for his or her signature. No
signature may be counted as valid unless the county of residence of the signer is...
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17-13-43
Section 17-13-43 Selection of delegates to national conventions by political parties. Political
parties may provide for the selection of delegates to national conventions by the holding
of a presidential preference primary or by popular election of the delegates or otherwise.
In the event a presidential preference primary is called by the governing body of any party,
notice of such action shall be given to the Secretary of State as part of the notice required
by Section 17-13-46. The notice shall prescribe the procedure for the listing of the names
of presidential candidates on the primary ballot and for the selection of delegates pledged
under party rules to vote for the respective presidential candidates. A presidential preference
primary, when called, shall appear in the first or top position on the primary ballot. When
no presidential preference primary is to be utilized, delegates may be elected in the primary
election in the same manner as other party officers; except, that...
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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as
may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes,
the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts
established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered
qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but
also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being
sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The
county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic
voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be
installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated
and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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17-13-5
Section 17-13-5 Filing of declaration of candidacy; certification of names of candidates; preparation
of ballots; unopposed candidates. (a) All candidates for nomination to public office or for
election to party office in the primary election provided for in this chapter shall file their
declaration of candidacy with the state party chair if they seek any federal, state, circuit,
or district office, or the state Senate, House of Representatives, or any other office that
is not a county office not later than 5:00 P.M. 116 days before the date of the primary election.
All candidates for nomination or election to a county office shall file their declaration
with the county party chair not later than 5:00 P.M. 116 days before the date of the primary
election. (b) The state party chair shall, no later than 5:00 P.M. 82 days before the primary
election, certify the names of all primary election candidates, except candidates for county
offices, to the Secretary of State. The county party...
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17-11-3
Section 17-11-3 Absentee balloting generally. (a) Any qualified elector of this state may apply
for and vote an absentee ballot by mail, by hand delivery, or by commercial carrier, as determined
by rule by the Secretary of State, as provided in Sections 17-11-5 and 17-11-9, in any primary,
general, special, or municipal election, if he or she makes application in writing therefor
not less than five days prior to the election in which he or she desires to vote and meets
one or more of the following requirements: (1) The person expects to be out of the county
or the state, or the municipality for municipal elections, on election day. (2) The person
has any physical illness or infirmity which prevents his or her attendance at the polls, whether
he or she is within or without the county on the day of the election. (3) The person expects
to work a shift which has at least 10 hours which coincide with the hours the polls are open
at his or her regular polling place. (4) The person is...
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17-4-2
Section 17-4-2 State voter registration lists. The board of registrars, when registration is
closed before a primary, general, or special election, shall certify to the Secretary of State
any additions, deletions, corrections, or changes to the state voter registration list. Except
as provided in Section 17-4-2.1, after registration has closed and within the 10-day period
before an election, the judge of probate and municipal election officials shall prepare and
print a report from the state voter registration list of the correct alphabetical lists of
the qualified electors registered by precincts, districts, or subdivisions of a precinct where
the precinct has been divided or subdivided, if not within a city or incorporated town, and
by wards and other subdivisions, if within a city or incorporated town, and no others. An
electronic archive in the database for the state voter registration list shall be recorded
simultaneously with the printing of each county's list of qualified...
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17-12-8
Section 17-12-8 Count of votes to be sealed, certified, and delivered to sheriff; public inspection
of results. As soon as the ballots are counted, the inspectors shall ascertain the number
of votes received for each person and for what office and shall make a statement of the same
in writing, which statement shall be signed by them. They shall also certify in writing on
both the clerk's poll list and the voters' poll list, that the poll list is the poll list
of the voting places at which they were inspectors, the day and year on which the election
was held, and for what offices, which certificates shall be signed by them. The clerk's poll
list, as sealed and certified, shall be placed in the records of election containers to be
furnished for each voting place. The record of election containers shall be securely sealed
and delivered by the precinct returning officer to the sheriff as county returning officer.
No later than two hours after the polls are closed, the voting place election...
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17-13-18
Section 17-13-18 Candidate with majority of votes declared nominee of party; second primary
election; certification of results. (a) At the respective meetings of the respective executive
committees, the county executive committee, as to candidates in the primary election for office,
except candidates for county office, shall publicly ascertain, determine, and declare whether
any candidate for office in the primary election has received a majority of the votes cast
for the office, and, if so, declare the candidate the nominee of the party for the office
for which he or she was a candidate and for which he or she received a majority of the votes
cast for that office in the primary election. (b) If no candidate receives a majority of all
of the votes cast in such primary election for any one office or offices for the nomination
to which there were more than two candidates, then there shall be held a second primary election
on the fourth Tuesday following the primary election, and the...
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17-13-48
Section 17-13-48 Selection and appointment of officers to conduct elections. Each candidate
for nomination may, at least 45 days before the primary, present to the county executive committee
of his or her party a list of election officials desired by him or her for any one or more
of the districts, wards, or precincts, and the county committee, so far as practicable, shall
make, from the list so presented to it, a list of names of election officials for each district,
ward, or precinct, which it will nominate to the appointing board of the county for appointment
as officials to conduct the primary election. The county committee shall present the list
so made up by it to the appointing board of the county which appoints the election officials
to conduct elections for state and county officials in November, or at any other lawful time,
which appointing board, from the list so presented to it by the county committee, shall, if
there be on the list the names of sufficient persons who are...
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17-11-5
Section 17-11-5 Delivery of absentee ballots; maintenance of voter lists. (a) Upon receipt
of an application for an absentee ballot as provided in Section 17-11-3, if the applicant's
name appears on the list of qualified voters produced from the state voter registration list
in the election to be held, or if the applicant qualifies for a provisional absentee ballot,
the absentee election manager shall furnish the absentee ballot to the applicant by: (1) Forwarding
it by United States mail to the applicant's or voter's residence address or, upon written
request of the voter, to the address where the voter regularly receives mail; or (2) by handing
the absentee ballot to the applicant in person or, in the case of emergency voting when the
applicant requires medical treatment, his or her designee in person. If the absentee election
manager has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has given a fraudulent address
on the application for the absentee ballot, the absentee election...
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