2-13-311 - Order of names on ballot.
2-13-311. Order of names on ballot.
The names of the candidates for president and delegate-candidates shall appear on the ballot as follows:
(1) The names of the presidential candidates shall be listed vertically within the first two (2) columns for each respective party's primary election. The presidential candidates' names shall appear alphabetically according to the first initial of their surnames. Within the same columns for the presidential preference of each party, there shall be an Uncommitted designation immediately following the last listed presidential candidate's name within each party's primary.
(2) (A) Within the vertical columns immediately following and below the entire presidential preference listing for that primary, the names of the presidential candidates shall again appear in vertical columns in alphabetical order according to their surnames. Immediately beneath each presidential candidate's name, the names of delegate-candidates who are committed to that particular presidential candidate in accordance with §§ 2-13-307, 2-13-308(2), and 2-13-309(a), shall appear vertically in alphabetical order according to their surnames. The Uncommitted designation shall appear with an alphabetical vertical listing of those uncommitted delegate-candidates pledged to the last listed presidential candidate.
(B) It is expressly understood and provided that the appearance of presidential candidates' names as provided in this subdivision (2) is only for the purpose of identifying individual delegate-candidates committed to particular presidential candidates. The ballot shall clearly indicate that each voter is to vote individually for delegate-candidates.
(3) In each congressional district, the ballot shall list only those delegate-candidates seeking election as a delegate from such congressional district and any at-large delegates who are to be placed on the ballot.
[Acts 1976, ch. 421, § 11; T.C.A., § 2-1351.]