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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 49.58, Code 1997, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 49.58 EFFECT OF DEATH OF CERTAIN CANDIDATES. 1 4 1. If any candidate nominated by a political party, as 1 5 defined in section 43.2, for the office of senator or 1 6 representative in the Congress of the United States, governor, 1 7 lieutenant governor, attorney general, or senator or 1 8 representative in the general assembly dies during the period 1 9 beginning on the eighty-eighth day and ending on the last day 1 10 before the general election, or if any candidate so nominated 1 11 for the office of county supervisor dies during the period 1 12 beginning on the seventy-third day and ending on the last day 1 13 before the general election, the vote cast at the general 1 14 election for that office shall not be canvassed as would 1 15 otherwise be required by chapter 50. Instead, a special 1 16 election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the second 1 17 Monday in December, for the purpose of electing a person to 1 18 fill that office. 1 19 2. Each candidate for that office whose name appeared on 1 20 the general election ballot shall also be a candidate for the 1 21 office in the special election, except that the deceased 1 22 candidate's political party may designate another candidate in 1 23 substantially the manner provided by section 43.78 for filling 1 24 vacancies on the general election ballot. However, a 1 25 political party which did not have a candidate on the general 1 26 election ballot for the office in question may similarly 1 27 designate a candidate for that office in the special election. 1 28 The name of any replacement or additional candidate so 1 29 designated shall be submitted in writing to the state 1 30 commissioner, or the commissioner in the case of a candidate 1 31 for county supervisor, not later than five o'clock p.m. on the 1 32 first Tuesday after the date of the general election. No 1 33 other candidate whose name did not appear on the general 1 34 election ballot as a candidate for the office in question 1 35 shall be placed on the ballot for the special election, in any 2 1 manner. The special election shall be held and canvassed in 2 2 the manner prescribed by law for the general election. 2 3 3. In lieu of the procedure in subsection 1, if a 2 4 candidate for county supervisor in a county with supervisor 2 5 representation plan "one" dies during the period beginning on 2 6 the seventy-third day and ending on the last day before the 2 7 general election, the party's county convention may choose to 2 8 forego nomination of a candidate for special election and 2 9 allow the office to be voted on at the general election with 2 10 the ballot remaining vacant for that political party for that 2 11 office. The county convention shall notify the secretary of 2 12 state in writing as soon as practicable before the date of the 2 13 election whether it wishes to proceed under subsection 1 or 2 14 this subsection. 2 15 EXPLANATION 2 16 This bill provides that if a political party candidate for 2 17 county supervisor in a county whose supervisors are elected at 2 18 large dies within 73 days of the election, the county 2 19 convention of the political party to which the candidate was 2 20 affiliated may choose to leave the spot on the ballot vacant 2 21 rather than nominating another candidate from that party and 2 22 holding a special election after the general election. 2 23 LSB 1669SV 77 2 24 sc/jw/5
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