2010 Tennessee Code
Title 2 - Elections
Chapter 18 - Contested Election of Governor
2-18-105 - Aggregate vote when no objection Resolution of election.
2-18-105. Aggregate vote when no objection Resolution of election.
(a) After the returns of all the counties have been considered, if there is no objection by any claimant, the aggregate vote shall be announced by the speaker of the senate, and the person having the highest number of votes shall then be declared to be elected by resolution, which shall be in order and passed in substantially this form: Resolved, That _______________________________________ , having the highest number of votes at the election in November last, has been elected and shall be Governor of Tennessee.
(b) If it appears to the convention that the result would not be changed if all objections were sustained, the person having the highest number of votes shall be declared elected as in subsection (a).
[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-1805.]
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