Section 8-501 - Selection of convention delegates and alternate delegates. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-501. Selection of convention delegates and alternate delegates.
 

(a)  Process in accordance with party rules.- Delegates and alternate delegates to the national presidential nominating convention of a political party shall be selected as provided in the national party rules of the party. 

(b)  Certification to State Board.- The State central committee of each political party shall certify to the State Board, not later than October 1 in the year preceding the election: 

(1) the number of delegates and alternate delegates to be selected in the State and the mode or modes of selection; and 

(2) in the case of a principal political party: 

(i) if delegates are to be elected by district, the number of delegates to be elected from each district; 

(ii) provisions for placing on the ballot the name of a presidential candidate, or the word "uncommitted", adjacent to the name of each candidate for delegate; 

(iii) provisions for how, if a candidate for delegate withdraws in accordance with § 5-502 of this article and the withdrawing candidate's name would have appeared on the ballot adjacent to the name of a presidential candidate, that presidential candidate will designate a replacement candidate for delegate no later than 5 days after the deadline established in § 5-502 of this article; and 

(iv) any other provisions of the national party rules of the party that relate to the election of delegates or alternate delegates at the primary election. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 33, § 8-501; 2002, ch. 291, §§ 2, 4; 2003, ch. 222; 2007, ch. 219.]