43.23 - DEATH OR WITHDRAWAL OF PRIMARY CANDIDATE.
43.23 DEATH OR WITHDRAWAL OF PRIMARY CANDIDATE.
1. If a person who has filed nomination papers with the state
commissioner as a candidate in a primary election dies or withdraws
up to the seventy- sixth day before the primary election, the
appropriate convention or central committee of that person's
political party may designate one additional primary election
candidate for the nomination that person was seeking, if the
designation is submitted to the state commissioner in writing by five
o'clock p.m. on the seventy-first day before the date of the primary
election. The name of any candidate so submitted shall be included
in the appropriate certificate or certificates furnished by the state
commissioner under section 43.22.
2. If a person who has filed nomination papers with the
commissioner as a candidate in a primary election dies or withdraws
up to the sixty-seventh day before the primary election, the
appropriate convention or central committee of that person's
political party may designate one additional primary election
candidate for the nomination that person was seeking, if the
designation is submitted to the commissioner in writing by five
o'clock p.m. on the sixty-third day before the primary election.
The name of any candidate so submitted shall be placed on the
appropriate ballot or ballots by the commissioner. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, § 43.59(1); C77, 79, 81, § 43.23] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1224, § 2; 89 Acts, ch 136, §10
Referred to in § 43.13