Section 168.135 - Candidates for nomination; death; selection of new candidate; ballots. - Michigan Statutes

MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 116 of 1954

168.135 Candidates for nomination; death; selection of new candidate; ballots.

Sec. 135.

When any candidate of a political party for the office of representative in congress, after having qualified as a candidate, shall die, after the last day for qualifying, leaving such party without a candidate for the office of representative in congress, a candidate to fill the vacancy thereby caused may be selected by 3 delegates elected by a majority of the precinct delegates and nominees for state representative and state senator in a state representative or state senatorial district of the candidate's political party from within the boundaries of the congressional district. In case said district comprises more than 1 county, the meeting shall be called and conducted by the chairman of the state central committee or his authorized representative; the name of the candidate so selected shall be transmitted to the county officials required by law to print and distribute ballots, and such county officials shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of gummed labels or stickers bearing the name of the candidate, which shall be distributed to the various voting precincts within their respective counties. The board of election inspectors of each such precinct shall cause 1 of such stickers to be placed on each ballot, over the name of the candidate who has died, before such ballot is handed to the elector.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1966, Act 322, Imd. Eff. July 19, 1966
Popular Name: Election Code