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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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17-16-11
Section 17-16-11 Filing of declarations of candidacy by candidates; certification of names
of candidates to Secretary of State and probate judges; preparation of ballots; unopposed
candidates not listed on ballots. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 17-13-5
BY ACT 2006-570 IN THE 2006 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2007. (a)(1) Except as provided
in subdivision (2), 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. 60 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. 60 days before the date of the...
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17-13-17
Section 17-13-17 Canvass, tabulation, and declaration of results. The county executive committee
of the party or parties participating in the primary election shall meet at the courthouse
of its county, not later than noon on Tuesday next following the primary election, and receive
the returns, canvass and tabulate the same, by precincts, and publicly declare the results
thereof. The chair of each county executive committee shall forthwith and no later than the
close of business on the seventh day following the primary election certify and return to
the chair of the state executive committee a statement and tabulation, by precincts, of the
result of the primary election and of the number of votes received by each candidate therein
for office, except candidates for county office. Not later than noon on the Wednesday eight
days following such primary election, the state executive committee, or such subcommittee
thereof as may have been appointed by the chair thereof for such purpose,...
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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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17-9-3
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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17-6-21
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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17-13-19
Section 17-13-19 Procedure when one candidate declines to enter second primary. In the event
either of the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the first primary election
shall determine not to enter the second primary election provided for in this chapter, the
candidate, as soon as possible and not more than three days after holding of the first primary
election, shall certify his or her declination to enter such second primary election to the
chair of the state executive committee of his or her party, if the office is an office other
than a county office, or to the chair of the county executive committee of his or her party
if the office is a county office. Upon the receipt of such notification, the chair of such
committee shall declare the other candidate the nominee of the party for such office and certify
his or her name as such nominee to the Secretary of State or the judge of probate, as the
case may require, and a second primary election for the nomination of...
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17-13-22
Section 17-13-22 Certification of nominees to judge of probate. The Secretary of State shall,
not later than 74 days before the general election, certify to the judge of probate of each
county in the state a separate list of nominees of each party for office and for each candidate
who has requested to be an independent candidate and has filed a written petition in accordance
with Section 17-9-3, except nominees for county offices, to be voted for by the voters of
such county. (Acts 1975, No. 1196, p. 2349, §36; Acts 1995, No. 95-786, p. 1872, §1; §17-16-40;
amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §59; Act 2014-6, p. 21, §1.)...
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17-13-71
Section 17-13-71 Grounds. The contests of nomination by a party for office, other than a county
office, may be instituted by any qualified elector of the state, or of the political subdivision,
as the case may be, who belongs to that party and who legally participated in such primary
election, upon the following grounds, which may be used separately, or else be joined in the
same contest: (1) Malconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of any inspector, clerk, returning
officer, canvassing board, or other persons. (2) When a person whose nomination is contested
was not eligible to the office sought at the time of the declaration of nomination. (3) On
account of illegal votes given. (4) On account of the rejection of legal votes. (5) Offers
to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other malconduct or misconduct calculated to prevent a
fair, free, and full exercise of the elective franchise. (6) Miscalculation, mistake, or misconduct
in counting, tallying, certifying, or canvassing which of...
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17-5-2
Section 17-5-2 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) CANDIDATE. An individual who has done any of the following: a.
Taken the action necessary under the laws of the state to qualify himself or herself for nomination
or for election to any state office or local office or in the case of an independent seeking
ballot access, on the date when he or she files a petition with the judge of probate in the
case of county offices, with the appropriate qualifying municipal official in the case of
municipal offices, or the Secretary of State in all other cases. b. Received contributions
or made expenditures in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or given his or her consent
for any other person or persons to receive contributions or make expenditures in excess of
one thousand dollars ($1,000), with a view to bringing about his or her nomination or election
to any state office or local office. (2) COMMISSION. The State Ethics...
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