Section 6-104. Party designation; statewide office  


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  • 1. Party designation of
      a candidate for nomination for any office to be filled by the voters  of
      the entire state shall be made by the state committee.
        2.  The  state  committee  shall make a decision by majority vote. The
      person receiving the majority  vote  shall  be  the  party's  designated
      candidate  for nomination, and all other persons who shall have received
      twenty-five percent or more of the vote cast on any  ballot  shall  have
      the  right to make written demand, duly acknowledged, to the state board
      of elections that their names appear on the primary ballot as candidates
      for such nomination. Such demand shall be made not later than seven days
      after such meeting and may  be  withdrawn  in  the  same  manner  within
      fourteen days after such meeting.
        3.  In the absence of a party rule forming and designating the members
      of a committee to fill any vacancy in designations which may occur after
      the state committee has adjourned its meeting  and  before  the  primary
      election, the state committee shall also enact a resolution forming such
      a committee and selecting the members of same.
        4.  Upon  the  vote  for  such  designation,  each member of the state
      committee shall be entitled to cast a number of votes which shall be  in
      accordance  with  the ratio which the number of votes cast for the party
      candidate for governor on the line or column of the party  at  the  last
      preceding  general  state election in the unit of representation of such
      member bears to the total vote cast on  such  line  or  column  at  such
      election  for  such candidate in the entire state.  The apportionment of
      such votes as so prescribed shall be determined  by  the  rules  of  the
      party.
        5.  Enrolled  members  of  the  party  may  make other designations by
      petition for a member of the same party.
        6. The meeting of the state committee for the purpose  of  designating
      candidates  shall  be  held  not earlier than twenty-one days before the
      first day to sign designating petitions and not later than the first day
      to sign designating petitions for the primary election.
        7. Within four days after such meeting, the state committee shall file
      with the state board of elections.
        (a) The names of persons who have  received  the  designation  of  the
      state  committee  and  the offices for which designated, and the name of
      each person who received twenty-five percent or more, of the vote on any
      ballot and the offices for which they received such vote.
        (b) The names of  the  persons  selected  as  the  committee  to  fill
      vacancies  or  a certified copy of the party rule forming and empowering
      such a committee to fill vacancies.
        8. No person may be designated by a state committee for more than  one
      statewide office pursuant to the provisions of this section.