2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 118 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS 118.325 Nomination by parties by convention or primary election -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge.
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118.325 Nomination by parties by convention or primary election -Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge.
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Any political organization not constituting a political party within the meaning of
KRS 118.015 but whose candidate received two percent (2%) of the vote of the
state at the last preceding election for presidential electors may nominate, by a
convention or primary held by the party in accordance with its constitution and
bylaws, candidates for any offices to be voted for at any regular election,
except the office of member of a board of education, for which nominations
shall be made as provided in KRS 160.220. Any political party, as defined in
KRS 118.015, and any political organization not constituting such a political
party but whose candidate received two percent (2%) of the vote of the state at
the last preceding election for presidential electors, may nominate, by a
convention or primary held by the party or organization in accordance with its
constitution and bylaws, as many electors of President and Vice President of
the United States as this state is entitled to elect.
The certificate of nomination by such a convention or primary shall be in
writing, shall contain the name of each person nominated, his or her residence
and the office to which he or she is nominated, and shall designate a title for
the party or principle that such convention or primary represents, together with
any simple figure or device by which its list of candidates may be designated
on the voting machines. The certificate shall be signed by the presiding officer
and secretary of the convention, or by the chair and secretary of the county,
city, or district committee, who shall add to their signatures their respective
places of residence, and acknowledge the same before an officer duly
authorized to administer oaths. A certificate of the acknowledgment shall be
appended to the certificate of nomination. In the case of electors of President
and Vice President of the United States the certificate of nomination shall state
the names of the candidates of the party for President and Vice President.
Any person desiring to become a candidate for an office, the nomination to
which is to be made by a convention pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) of this
section, except for the office of elector of President and Vice President of the
United States, shall file a statement with the official designated in KRS 118.165
with whom notification and declaration forms are filed for the office. The form of
the statement shall be prescribed by the State Board of Elections. Such
statement shall be filed as prescribed by KRS 118.365.
If the certificate of nomination of any state convention requests that the figure
or device selected by such convention be used to designate the candidates of
such party on the voting machines for all elections throughout the state, that
figure or device shall be used until changed by request of a subsequent state
convention of the same party. The device may be any appropriate symbol other
than the coat of arms or seal of this state or of the United States, the national
flag, or any other emblem common to the people at large.
In case of death, resignation, or removal of any such candidate subsequent to
nomination and before the certification of candidates for the regular election
made under KRS 118.215, the chair of the state, county, or city district
committee shall fill the vacancy, unless a supplemental certificate or petition of
nomination is filed. In the case of electors of President and Vice President of
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the United States, a vacancy may be filled by the chair of the state committee
at any time before the meeting of the electors, whether the vacancy occurs
before or after the election.
If any political party entitled to nominate by convention fails to do so, the
names of all nominees by petition for any office who are designated in their
petition as members and candidates of that party shall be printed under the
device and title on the voting machines as if nominated by a convention. If two
(2) or more persons who have filed certificates of nomination under this section
claim to be the nominee of the same political party, the governing authority of
that party shall designate to the Secretary of State and county clerk, in writing,
which of the candidates is entitled to the party emblem. If there are two (2) or
more contending executive committees of the same party in the county or
district, the county or district executive committee that is recognized by the
state governing authority of the party, by the written certificate of its chair, shall
be recognized by the Secretary of State and county clerk.
A judge who elected to retire as a Senior Status Special Judge in accordance
with KRS 21.580 shall not become a candidate or a nominee for any elected
office during the five (5) year term prescribed in KRS 21.580(1)(a)1., regardless
of the number of days served by the judge acting as a Senior Status Special
Judge.
Effective:June 25, 2013
History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 6, effective June 25, 2013. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1990
Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 46, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts
ch. 17, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 185,
sec. 18, effective January 1, 1985. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 118,
effective June 21, 1974.
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