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Ind. Code § 3-8-7-2 (2025)

Certification of primary results by election division

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     Sec. 2. The election division shall, not later than noon seventy-four (74) days before the date of the general election, certify the primary election results canvassed and tabulated under IC 3-10-1-34 for:

(1) candidates for federal and state offices; and

(2) candidates for legislative and local offices who are required to file a declaration of candidacy with the election division under IC 3-8-2;

to the county election board of each county in which the candidates are to be voted for at the next general election. No other form of certification of nomination for the offices is necessary.

[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-9-17(f) part.]

As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.3-1987, SEC.124; P.L.3-1997, SEC.152; P.L.66-2003, SEC.16.

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1991–1991 · leading case: In re Nomination of Parker, 580 N.E.2d 1006 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991).
In re Nomination of Parker, 580 N.E.2d 1006 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991). · cites it 2× “NOTES [1] In addition, the legislature used the singular term "election" instead of the plural "elections". Had the legislature intended to include both general or municipal and primary elections, we believe that it would have chosen to use the plural, or, as it did in other…”
Callahan v. Parker, 580 N.E.2d 1006 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991). “Had the legislature intended to include both general or municipal and primary elections, we believe that it would have chosen to use the plural, or, as it did in other sections of Title 3, the terms "primary election" and "general or municipal election" in concert.”
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