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2006 Kansas Code - 71-1415

      71-1415.   Primary election, when; write-in candidates. (a) In any college district having a district method and in which there are more than two candidates for a member position, the election officer shall call, and there shall be held, a primary election. The names of the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for any member position shall appear on the ballots in the general election.

      (b)   In any college district having the election-at-large method and in which there are more than two times the number of candidates as there are trustees to be elected, the election officer shall call, and there shall be held, a primary election. The names of twice the number of candidates as there are trustees to be elected who receive the greatest number of votes in the primary shall appear on the ballots in the general election.

      (c)   In the general election, there shall appear on the ballots a line appropriate for write-in candidates. No lines for write-in candidates shall appear on the primary election ballots.

      History:   L. 1967, ch. 407, § 12; L. 1990, ch. 252, § 12; May 17.

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