25-306e. Multiple nominations; acceptance of only one nomination.
25-306e
25-306e. Multiple nominations; acceptance of onlyone nomination.If any person receives two or more nominations for the sameoffice, such person shall file within seven days, including Saturday, Sundayand holidays, after the last nomination is received, a written statement,signed and sworn to by such person, designating which nomination such persondesires to accept. Such statement shall be filed in the office wherenomination papers are required to be filed. Upon filing such statement, suchperson shall be deemed to have declined any other nomination. If such personrefuses or neglects to file such statement, the officer with whom thenomination papers are filed, immediately upon the expiration of the seven-dayperiod, shall make and file in such officer's office an election of onenomination for such candidate. The county election officer shall print suchcandidate's name upon the official ballot under the designation so selected,and under no other designation.
History: L. 1999, ch. 105, § 7; July 1.