118.345 Defeated primary candidate barred from having name on regular election ballot -- Section not applicable to presidential preference primary candidates. - Kentucky Statutes

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118.345 Defeated primary candidate barred from having name on regular election ballot -- Section not applicable to presidential preference primary candidates. (1) No candidate who has been defeated for the nomination for any office in a primary election shall have his name placed on voting machines in the succeeding regular
election as a candidate for the same office for the nomination to which he was a
candidate in the primary election, except that if a vacancy occurs in the party
nomination for which he was a candidate in the primary election his name may be
placed on voting machines for the regular election as a candidate of that party if he
has been duly made such party nominee after the vacancy occurs as provided in
KRS 118.105. (2) No person who was a candidate for nomination for any office in a primary election and who, before the succeeding regular election, is declared by the judgment of any
court of competent jurisdiction to have violated, in the primary election, any
provision of KRS Chapter 121, or to be responsible for such violation by others,
shall have his name placed on voting machines for any office to be voted for in the
succeeding regular election. (3) This section does not apply to presidential preference primary candidates. Effective: July 15, 1986
History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 14, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 64, effective July 13, 1984; and ch. 185, sec. 19,
effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 394, sec. 27, effective July
15, 1982. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 54, sec. 27, effective March 10, 1976. --
Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 120, effective June 21, 1974.