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2019 Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VIII - Elections
Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses
Section 49 - Nomination in Case of Withdrawal, Death or Ineligibility
Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 53 § 49 (2019)
Section 49. If a person nominated to be voted for at a state primary dies before the day of the primary, or withdraws his name from nomination, or is found ineligible, and there is no other candidate for the party nomination for the office, the vacancy may be filled by the state committee, if the candidate is one to be voted for by all the voters of the commonwealth; and, in the case of candidates for nomination or election in a district, by the members of the ward and town committees in the wards and towns comprising the district.
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