§ 163-213.4. Nomination by State Board of Elections. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 163‑213.4.  Nominationby State Board of Elections.

By the first Tuesday inFebruary of the year preceding the North Carolina presidential preferenceprimary, the chair of each political party shall submit to the State Board ofElections a list of its presidential candidates to be placed on thepresidential preference primary ballot. The list must be comprised ofcandidates whose candidacy is generally advocated and recognized in the newsmedia throughout the United States or in North Carolina, unless any suchcandidate executes and files with the chair of the political party an affidavitstating without qualification that the candidate is not and does not intend tobecome a candidate for nomination in the North Carolina Presidential PreferencePrimary Election. The State Board of Elections shall prepare and publish a listof the names of the presidential candidates submitted. The State Board ofElections shall convene in Raleigh on the first Tuesday in March preceding thepresidential preference primary election. At the meeting required by thissection, the State Board of Elections shall nominate as presidential primarycandidates all candidates affiliated with a political party, recognizedpursuant to the provisions of Article 9 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes,who have been submitted to the State Board of Elections. Immediately uponcompletion of these requirements, the Board shall release to the news media allsuch nominees selected. Provided, however, nothing shall prohibit the partialselection of nominees prior to the meeting required by this section, if allprovisions herein have been complied with.  (1971, c. 225; 1975, c. 744; 1983, c. 729; 1987, c.81, s. 1; c. 549, s. 6.1; 1991, c. 689, s. 15(c); 2003‑278, s. 9(a); 2007‑391,s. 33; 2008‑187, s. 33(a).)