Election of National Committeemen. The county committee of each party may make such rules for the government of the party in the county, not inconsistent with law or with the State rules of the party, as it may deem expedient, and may also revoke, alter or renew in any manner not inconsistent with law or with such State rules, any present or future county rules of such party.
No such rules shall be effective until a certified copy thereof has been filed in the office of the county board of elections. The members of all other party committees, and all other party officers whose election is required by the party rules, shall also be elected at the Spring primary, in the manner provided by this act.
Selection of Delegates and Alternate Delegates. The secretary of any political party shall certify and forward to the Secretary of the Commonwealth a copy of the party rules at least thirty days prior to the first day on which nomination petitions may be circulated for the offices which are to be filled at the Spring primaries in the years in which candidates for the President of the United States are to be nominated, or at such other times as a political party shall meet in National convention or conference when candidates for the President of the United States are not to be nominated.
Delegates to National Conventions. No candidate for delegate or alternate delegate shall be allowed to commit himself to any presidential candidate nor shall the Secretary of the Commonwealth cause any notation of commitment to be printed on any ballot unless the presidential candidate forwards notice to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, upon a form prescribed by the secretary, that he is a candidate for the nomination of President of the United States and that he authorizes delegates and alternate delegates to pledge their support and commit themselves to him.
This notice must be received by the secretary at least fifteen days prior to the first day on which nomination petitions may be circulated for the offices which are to be filled at the Spring primaries in the years in which candidates for the President of the United States are to be nominated. Candidates for other party offices, who receive a plurality of the votes of the party electors at a primary, shall be the party officers of their respective parties.
In any case where the fact of a tie vote is not authoritatively determined until after the third Wednesday following the primary, the day for casting lots shall be the second day after the fact of such tie vote is authoritatively determined.
If any candidate or candidates, receiving a tie vote, fail to appear before twelve 12 o'clock noon on said day, the county board or the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as the case may be, shall cast lots for him or them. For the purpose of casting lots any candidate may appear in person, or by proxy appointed in writing.
District Committees. Determination and Certification of State-wide and County-wide Parties. In the years when candidates for the office of President of the United States are to be nominated, every registered and enrolled member of a political party shall have the opportunity at the Spring primary in such years to vote his preference for one person to be the candidate of his political party for President.
It shall be the duty of each county board of elections, prior to each primary, to ascertain the various public offices in said county and in the cities, boroughs, towns, townships, wards, school districts, poor districts and election districts thereof, to be filled at the ensuing November election, and for which candidates are to be nominated at such primary, and otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of this act.
It shall also be the duty of the chairman of the State committee of each political party to forward to the Secretary of the Commonwealth and to the respective county boards, on or before the thirteenth Tuesday preceding the General primary, a written notice setting forth the number of delegates and alternate delegates to the National convention of such party who are to be elected in the State at large at the ensuing primary, and the number of such delegates and alternate delegates who are to be elected at said primary in such county, or in any district within such county, or of which it forms a part.
The said notice shall also set forth the number of members of the National committee, if any, who, under the National party rules, are to be elected at the said primary in the State at large, and the number of members of the State committee to be elected at the said primary in such county, or in any district, or part of a district within such county.
It shall also be the duty of the chairman of the county committee and, in cases where a city is coextensive with a county, the chairman of the city committee of each party, on or before the thirteenth Tuesday preceding the General primary, to send to the county board of such county a written notice setting forth all party offices to be filled in the county at the ensuing primary.
Said notice shall contain the date of the primary, and shall be published once each week for two successive weeks in counties of the first and second class and once in all other counties.
Nomination Petitions to Be Filed. Nomination petitions of delegates and alternate delegates to National conventions committed to support a particular presidential candidate must be signed by the particular presidential candidate to whom support is pledged before it can be certified by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The name of no candidate shall be placed upon the official ballots or ballot labels of a political party to be used at any primary, unless such petition shall have been filed in his behalf.
In no event shall any person's name be printed upon the official ballots or ballot labels of any party for the office of delegate, alternate delegate, member of committee or other party officer, unless he is a duly registered and enrolled member of said party.
He shall also declare therein that he is a qualified elector of the county therein named, and in case the nomination is not to be made or candidates are not to be elected by the electors of the State at large, of the political district therein named, in which the nomination is to be made or the election is to be held. He shall add his address where he is duly registered and enrolled, giving city, borough or township, with street and number, if any, and shall legibly print his name and add the date of signing, expressed in words or numbers: Provided, however, That if the said political district named in the petition lies wholly within any city, borough or township, or is coextensive with same, it shall not be necessary for any signer of a nomination petition to state therein the city, borough or township of his residence.
No nomination petition shall be circulated prior to the thirteenth Tuesday before the primary, and no signature shall be counted unless it bears a date affixed not earlier than the thirteenth Tuesday nor later than the tenth Tuesday prior to the primary.
If more than one sheet is used, they shall be bound together when offered for filing if they are intended to constitute one petition, and each sheet shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number one, at the foot of each page.
In cases of petitions for delegate or alternate delegate to National conventions, each sheet shall contain a notation indicating the presidential candidate to whom he is committed or the term "uncommitted.
In cases of petitions for delegate and alternate delegate to National conventions, the candidate's affidavit shall state that his signature to the delegate's statement, as hereinafter set forth, if such statement is signed by said candidate, was affixed to the sheet or sheets of said petition prior to the circulation of same. In the case of a candidate for nomination as President of the United States, it shall not be necessary for such candidate to file the affidavit required in this section to be filed by candidates, but the post-office address of such candidate shall be stated in such nomination petition.
Statement of Candidates for Delegates to National Conventions. Such statement, if signed, shall be signed on all the sheets of said petition, together with the date of signing and shall be in substantially the following form:.
Delegate's Statement. I hereby declare to the voters of my political party in the here insert "State of Pennsylvania," if a delegate or alternate delegate at large; otherwise, insert " District" that, if elected and in attendance as a delegate to the National convention of the party, I shall, with all fidelity, to the best of my judgment and ability, in all matters coming before the convention, support here insert name of presidential candidate for President of the United States and shall use all honorable means within my power to aid in securing the nomination for such candidate for President.
Signature of candidate for delegate or alternate delegate, and date of signing. On the ballots or ballot labels used at a primary, after or under the name of each candidate for delegate or alternate delegate to a National party convention, shall appear the words "committed to here insert name of presidential candidate " or "uncommitted" according to whether the candidate included, or failed to include, the above statement with his affidavit.
A sitting magisterial district judge elected to the office shall not be required to file a nominating petition under this section to run for the office of magisterial district judge but may instead file a certificate of nomination for reelection specifying the intent to seek reelection to the office. If a sitting magisterial district judge files a certificate of nomination for reelection, the sitting magisterial district judge may not challenge the nominating petition of another candidate for magisterial district judge.
Compiler's Note: Section 3 of Act 2 of provided that section Nominations by Minor Political Parties. Minor political parties shall be subject to the provisions of this act applicable to political parties with respect to special elections, voter registration forms, substituted nominations and all other purposes except as otherwise expressly provided in this section. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall prescribe forms or, if there is insufficient time, make appropriate conforming changes in existing forms to carry out the purposes of this section.
No words shall be used in any nomination paper to designate the name or appellation of the minor political party represented by the candidate's name in such nomination paper which are identical with or deceptively similar to the words used for a like purpose by any minor political party which has already filed nomination papers for the same office. Any petition to set aside a nomination paper on account of the name or appellation used therein, or involving the right of the signers thereof to use such name or appellation, or on any other account, shall be decided as in the case of other petitions to set aside nomination papers, in the manner provided by this article.
Within three weeks after such candidate has filed, the appropriate supervisor shall mail the same forms and instructions to such candidate by first class mail. Nomination petitions in all other cases shall be filed with the county boards of election of the respective counties. Nomination petitions for candidates for any office to be voted for by the electors of any city, borough, township, ward or school district which is situate in two or more counties, shall be filed with the county board of the county in which the major number of the registered electors of such city, borough, township, ward or school district reside.
Immediately after the last day for such candidates to withdraw and after they have cast lots for their position on the ballots or ballot labels, the said county board shall certify to the county board of each other county involved a list of the names, addresses and occupations of the candidates so filing nomination petitions for each party, together with the order in which their names are to appear upon the primary ballots or ballot labels, and such other county board shall prepare the primary ballots or ballot labels to be used in the portion of such city, borough, township, ward or school district situate in such county accordingly.
All moneys paid on account of filing fees shall be transmitted by the county board to the county treasurer and shall become part of the General Fund. Certified checks or money orders in payment of filing fees shall be made payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the county, as the case may be, and shall be transmitted to the State Treasurer or to the county treasurer and shall become part of the General Fund. Petitions to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall be received in said office not later than 5 o'clock P.
Compiler's Note: Section 3 of Act 2 of provided that section is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent with Act 2. Withdrawal of Candidates. Such withdrawals, to be effective, must be received in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth not later than 5 o'clock P. No name so withdrawn shall be printed on the ballot or ballot labels.
No candidate may withdraw any withdrawal notice already received and filed, and thereby reinstate his nomination petition. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall give at least two 2 days notice by mail of said date to all candidates whose petitions have been received and filed in his office, and the county board shall give at least two 2 days notice of said date by posting thereof in a conspicuous place in its office, and by publication once in at least two newspapers of general circulation published in the county.
All candidates may appear in person, or by agent duly authorized by letter of attorney, signed and acknowledged by an officer empowered to take acknowledgments. In the event of any of said candidates not being present in person or by representative at the time of casting of lots, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county board, as the case may be, to appoint some person to represent such absentee.
After said lots are cast, the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county board, as the case may be, shall accordingly establish the order in which the names of said candidates are to appear upon the primary ballots or ballot labels, and certify the same for placing upon the official primary ballots or ballot labels. In the case of each candidate for delegate or alternate delegate to a National party convention, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall certify as to whether such candidate has included with his affidavit the statement provided for in section of this act and in cases where such candidate has committed himself to a particular presidential preference, the name of the presidential candidate to whom he is committed.
Said petition shall have the same force and effect as the original petition, and the name of the candidate so nominated shall be substituted for that of the deceased candidate.
If for any reason the nominee of any political party for President of the United States fails or is unable to make the said nominations within the time herein provided, then the nominee for such party for the office of Vice-President of the United States shall, as soon as may be possible after the expiration of thirty days, make the nominations. The names of such nominees, with their residences and post-office addresses, shall be certified immediately to the Secretary of the Commonwealth by the nominee for the office of President or Vice-President, as the case may be, making the nominations.
Vacancies existing after the date of nomination of presidential electors shall be filled by the nominee for the office of President or Vice-President making the original nomination. Nominations made to fill vacancies shall be certified to the Secretary of the Commonwealth in the manner herein provided for in the case of original nominations.
Conduct of Primaries. Primary Election Returns. Which Candidates Nominated. Setting Aside Nominations of Candidates.
Nominee in Case of Tie Vote. In any case where the fact of a tie vote is not authoritatively determined until after the third Wednesday following the primary, the time for casting lots shall be at twelve o'clock noon on the second day after the fact of such tie vote is authoritatively determined. If any candidate or candidates, receiving a tie vote, fail to appear before twelve o'clock noon on said day, the county board or the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as the case may be, shall cast lots for him or them.
Nominations by Political Bodies. Such nomination papers shall be in form prescribed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and no other forms than the ones so prescribed shall be used for such purposes. In the case of all other nominations, the number of qualified electors of the electoral district signing such nomination papers shall be at least equal to two per centum of the largest entire vote cast for any officer, except a judge of a court of record, elected at the last preceding election in said electoral district for which said nomination papers are to be filed, and shall be not less than the number of signers required for nomination petitions for party candidates for the same office.
In cases where a new electoral district shall have been created, the number of qualified electors signing such nomination papers, for candidates to be elected at the first election held after the creation of such district, shall be at least equal to two per centum of the largest vote cast in the several election districts, which are included in the district newly created, for any officer elected in the last preceding election.
No elector shall sign more than one nomination paper for each office to be filled, unless there are two or more persons to be elected to the same office, in which case he may sign nomination papers for as many candidates for such office as, and no more than, he could vote for at the succeeding election. More than one candidate may be nominated by one nomination paper and candidates for more than one office may be nominated by one nomination paper: Provided, That each political body nominating does not nominate more candidates than there are offices to be voted for at the ensuing election: And provided, That all the signers on each nomination paper are qualified to vote for all the candidates nominated therein.
If more than one sheet is used, they shall be bound together when offered for filing if they are intended to constitute one nomination paper, and each sheet shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with number one 1 at the foot of each page. Each sheet shall have appended thereto the statement of some person, not necessarily a signer, and not necessarily the same person on each sheet, setting forth, subject to the penalties of 18 Pa.
Limitations on Eligibility of Candidates. No words shall be used in any nomination paper to designate the name or appellation of the political body represented by the candidates named in such nomination paper which are identical with or deceptively similar to the words used for a like purpose by any existing political party as defined by section of this act, or which contain part of the name or an abbreviation of the name or part of the name of any existing political party; nor shall any words be used in any nomination paper to designate the name or appellation of the political body represented by the candidate's name in such nomination paper which are identical with or deceptively similar to the words used for a like purpose by any political body which has already filed nomination papers for the same office nor which contain part of the name or an abbreviation of the name or part of the name of a political body which has already filed nomination papers for the same office.
Any petition to set aside a nomination paper on account of the name or appellation used therein, or involving the right of the signers thereof to use such name or appellation shall be decided as in the case of other petitions to set aside nomination papers, in the manner provided by this article.
Each person filing any nomination paper for public office shall be given a statement composed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth setting forth his duties under law to file pre-election and post-election campaign finance reports, and the penalties for nonfiling.
Place and Time of Filing Nomination Papers. Nomination papers for all other candidates shall be filed with the county boards of elections of the respective counties.
Nomination papers for candidates for any office to be voted for by the electors of any city, borough, township, ward or school district which is situate in two or more counties shall be filed with the county board of the county in which the major number of the registered electors of such city, borough, township, ward or school district reside.
Immediately after the last day for withdrawals of candidates nominated by nomination papers, the said county board shall certify to the county board of each other county involved a list of the names, addresses and occupations of the candidates so nominated to be voted for in two or more counties, together with the names or appellations of the political bodies nominating them.
Filing Fee. All fees so received by the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county election board shall be transmitted to the State Treasurer or to the county treasurer, as the case may be, and shall become part of the General Fund. The invalidity of any sheet of a nomination petition or nomination paper shall not affect the validity of such petition or paper if a sufficient petition or paper remains after eliminating such invalid sheet. The action of said officer or board in refusing to receive and file any such nomination petition, certificate or paper, may be reviewed by the court upon an application to compel its reception as of the date when it was presented to the office of such officer or board: Provided, however, That said officer or board shall be entitled to a reasonable time in which to examine any petitions, certificates or papers, and to summon and interrogate the candidates named therein, or the persons presenting said petitions, certificates or papers, and his or their retention of same for the purpose of making such examination or interrogation shall not be construed as an acceptance or filing.
Upon completion of any examination, if any nomination petition, certificate or paper is found to be defective, it shall forthwith be rejected and returned to the candidate or one of the candidates named therein, together with a statement of the reasons for such rejection:. Provided further, That no nomination petition, nomination paper or nomination certificate shall be permitted to be filed, if the political party or political body referred to therein shall be composed of a group of electors whose purposes or aims, or one of whose purposes or aims, is the establishment, control, conduct, seizure or overthrow of the Government of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the United States of America by the use of force, violence, military measure or threats of one or more of the foregoing.
The authority to reject such nomination petition, paper or certificate for this reason shall, when filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, be vested in a committee composed of the Governor, the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and when filed with any county board of elections shall be vested in such board.
If in such case the committee or board, as the case may be, shall conclude that the acceptance of such nomination petition, paper or certificate should be refused, it shall within two days of the filing of such nomination petition, paper or certificate fix a place and a time five days in advance for hearing the matter, and notice thereof shall be given to all parties affected thereby. At the time and place so fixed the committee or board, as the case may be, shall hear testimony, but shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence.
The testimony presented shall be stenographically recorded and made a part of the record of the committee or board. Within two days after such hearing the committee or board, if satisfied upon competent evidence that the said nomination petition, paper or certificate is not entitled to be accepted and filed, it shall announce its decision and immediately notify the parties affected thereby.
Failure to announce decision within two days after such hearing shall be conclusive that such nomination petition, paper or certificate has been accepted and filed.
The decision of said committee or board in refusing to accept and file such nomination petition, paper or certificate may be reviewed by the court upon an application to compel its reception as of the date when presented to the Secretary of the Commonwealth or such board. The application shall be made within two days of the time when such decision is announced. If the application is properly made, any judge of said court may fix a time and place for hearing the matter in dispute, of which notice shall be served with a copy of said application upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county board of elections, as the case may be.
At the time so fixed, the court, or any judge thereof assigned for the purpose, shall hear the case de novo. If after such hearing the said court shall find that the decision of the committee or the board was erroneous, it shall issue its mandate to the committee or board to correct its decision and to accept and file the nomination paper, petition or certificate.
From any decision of the court an appeal may be taken within two days after the entry thereof. It shall be the duty of the said court to fix the hearing and to announce its decision within such period of time as will permit the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county board of elections to permit the names of the candidates affected by the court's decision to be printed on the ballot, if the court should so determine.
Compiler's Note: Section of Act of provided that section is repealed insofar as it vests jurisdiction and powers in courts in any manner inconsistent with Act , provides a time for appeal to an appellate court which is other than the time expressly provided in section of Act , provides appeal procedures inconsistent with Act or is otherwise in any manner inconsistent with Act Objections to Nomination Petitions and Papers. A copy of said petition shall, within said period, be served on the officer or board with whom said nomination petition or paper was filed.
Upon the presentation of such a petition, the court shall make an order fixing a time for hearing which shall not be later than ten days after the last day for filing said nomination petition or paper, and specifying the time and manner of notice that shall be given to the candidate or candidates named in the nomination petition or paper sought to be set aside.
On the day fixed for said hearing, the court shall proceed without delay to hear said objections, and shall give such hearing precedence over other business before it, and shall finally determine said matter not later than fifteen 15 days after the last day for filing said nomination petitions or papers. If the court shall find that said nomination petition or paper is defective under the provisions of section , or does not contain a sufficient number of genuine signatures of electors entitled to sign the same under the provisions of this act, or was not filed by persons entitled to file the same, it shall be set aside.
If the objections relate to material errors or defects apparent on the face of the nomination petition or paper, the court, after hearing, may, in its discretion, permit amendments within such time and upon such terms as to payment of costs, as the said court may specify. In case any such petition is dismissed, the court shall make such order as to the payment of the costs of the proceedings, including witness fees, as it shall deem just.
If a person shall sign any nomination petitions or papers for a greater number of candidates than he is permitted under the provisions of this act, if said signatures bear the same date, they shall, upon objections filed thereto, not be counted on any petition or paper and if they bear different dates, they shall be counted in the order of their priority of date, for only so many persons as there are candidates to be nominated or elected.
The office of the Prothonotary of the Commonwealth Court and the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the various offices of prothonotary of the court of common pleas shall be open between the hours of eight-thirty o'clock A.
Withdrawal of Nominated Candidates. Any person who has been similarly nominated as a candidate for any other office may withdraw his name from nomination by similar request, filed with the county board of elections of the proper county.
Such written withdrawals shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county board of elections, as the case may be, at least eighty-five 85 days previous to the day of the general or municipal election. Such withdrawals to be effective must be received in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth not later than five 5 o'clock P.
No name so withdrawn shall be printed upon the ballot or ballot labels. Any person who has been similarly nominated as a candidate for any other office may withdraw his name from nomination by a similar request, filed with the county board of elections of the proper county. Such written withdrawals shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the county board of elections, as the case may be, not later than the ordinary closing hour of said office on the seventh day next succeeding the last day for filing nomination papers for said office.
No candidate may withdraw any withdrawal notice already received and filed and thereby reinstate his nomination. Failure to pay such fee or file such oath within the time herein prescribed shall result in a vacancy in such party nomination. Such vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinafter provided for the filling of such vacancies happening by reason of the death or withdrawal of any candidate. Revocation of Declaration of Candidacy for Retention. Withdrawal; Order of Court. Substituted Nominations by Parties.
Upon the making of any such substituted nomination, in accordance with the party rules, it shall be the duty of the chairman and secretary or secretaries of the party committee making the nomination to file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth in the case of United States Senator, Representative in Congress and all State officers, including judges of courts of records, senators and representatives, and with the proper county board of elections in the case of other offices, a nomination certificate which shall be signed by the chairman and secretary or secretaries of the said committee, and which shall set forth the following:.
Every such certificate of nomination shall be sworn to or affirmed by the chairman and secretary or secretaries before an officer qualified to administer oaths. Substituted Nominations by Political Bodies. In the case of a vacancy caused by the death of any candidate, said substituted nomination certificate shall be accompanied by a death certificate, properly certified: Provided, however, That no substitute nomination certificate shall nominate any person who was a candidate for nomination by any political party for any office to be filled at the ensuing November election, whether or not nominated for such office by such political party, or who has already been nominated by any other political body for any office to be filled at the ensuing November or special election.
Time for Filing Substituted Nomination Certificates. Objections to Substituted Nomination Certificates. Preservation of Nomination Petitions, Certificates and Papers. County Boards to Ascertain Offices to be Filled. The board of elections shall thereupon promptly ascertain all county offices to be filled at the ensuing municipal election as a result of the impending change in classification and any existing county offices which are not to be filled at said election.
For this purpose, it shall be the duty of the chairman of the county committee of each party to send to the board a written notice setting forth all party offices to be filled in the county at the ensuing municipal election. Procedure upon Ascertaining Offices. But if notice of an impending change in classification, as hereinbefore provided for, does not come to the election board in time for it to ascertain the county offices for the primary election, then all candidates who have been or are nominated for county offices pursuant to subdivision a or to subdivision b of this article shall, in all cases where the offices for which they are nominated are the same under the county's present classification and under its new classification which is impending as a result of the Governor's certification, be the candidates for those offices, except for deaths or withdrawals provided for in this act: Provided, however, That no office which is not automatically established by law for the impending classification shall be deemed to be established by this section.
Any nomination, either for joint county offices or for any separate county office, when such offices or office will become either partly or wholly separate, or will become joint with one or more presently separate county office, upon the ensuing first Monday of January, shall not be construed as a nomination for any of the said offices, but any person being such a nominee may be nominated for any new office or offices ascertained.
All offices ascertained, which are to be filled at the municipal election in anticipation of the new classification and for which nominations have not been made pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this subdivision, may have candidates nominated for them as if vacancies had occurred as to the candidates for such offices and as if they were substituted nominations, in accordance with the procedure, insofar as it is applicable, provided by sections , and b of this act, for substituted nominations, except that the cause of vacancy set out in the nomination certificates shall not be death or withdrawal, but that the office was not ascertained for nominations in time for the regular procedures established by this article.
Upon the ascertainment of the offices to be filled at the ensuing municipal election, if it shall appear that any candidates have been or will be nominated for offices which are to be abolished as a result of the impending change in classification, the county board of elections shall proceed to keep off or to remove from the ballots or ballot labels all such nominations, together with the offices involved.
Upon the ascertainment of offices to be filled at the municipal election pursuant to notice of change in classification, the board shall give notice of all such offices by newspaper publication, at least twice, in accordance with section of this act, indicating whether the nominations thereto were obtained at the primary election or are to be obtained as hereinbefore provided.
Notice of the November election shall be given, as provided in section of this act, and shall set forth, 1 any existing county offices which will cease to exist on the ensuing first Monday of January, indicating that those offices and any candidates therefor will not appear as such upon the ballots or ballot labels; 2 existing county offices which will subsist and the candidates therefor; 3 county offices which will come into existence on the ensuing first Monday of January and the candidates therefor.
No such nomination certificate shall nominate any person who has already been nominated by any other political party or by any political body for the same office unless such person is a candidate for the office of judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the office of school director in districts where that office is elective or for the office of justice of the peace.
No such nomination papers shall nominate any person who has already been nominated by any political party or by any other political body for any office to be filled at the ensuing November election, unless such person is a candidate for the office of judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the office of school director in districts where that office is elective or for the office of justice of the peace.
Nomination certificates and nomination papers for public offices in counties, cities, boroughs, towns, townships, wards and school districts and for the offices of aldermen and justices of the peace shall be filed in the office of the county board of elections at least fifty 50 days prior to a municipal election.
Nor shall the provisions of this subdivision be construed to apply to any public office for which, by the provisions of any statute, a vacancy is required to be filled at the next election appropriate to the office, if said vacancy occurs at any time within two 2 calendar months immediately preceding a general or municipal election, as the case may be. Every nomination certificate for a November election required under the provisions of section nine hundred ninety-three of this act shall be in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and shall set forth the following:.
On the day fixed for said hearing, the court shall proceed without delay to hear said objections and shall give such hearing precedence over any other business before it and shall finally determine said matter promptly. Such withdrawals to be effective must be received at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth not later than five 5 o'clock P.
But no substituted nomination certificate shall nominate any person who has already been nominated by any other political party or by any political body for the same office, unless such person is a candidate for the office of judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the office of school director in districts where that office is elective or for the office of justice of the peace. In the case of a vacancy caused by the death of any candidate, said nomination certificate shall be accompanied by a death certificate properly certified.
No substituted nomination certificate shall nominate any person who has already been nominated by any political party or by any other political body for any office to be filled at the ensuing November election, unless such person is a candidate for the office of judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the office of school director in districts where that office is elective or for the office of justice of the peace.
Official Ballots to Be used. All ballots used at primaries and elections in election districts in which ballots are used, shall be provided by the respective county boards of elections, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and, except as otherwise provided in this act, only official ballots furnished by the county boards of elections shall be cast or counted at any primary or election in any district in which ballots are used. Form of Official Primary Ballot. Primary Ballot. Name of Party.
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ANZ may provide pre-approval also known as approval in principle or conditional approval to eligible customers who apply for an ANZ home loan and complete an application form and satisfy any other applicable requirements. Pre-approval is an approval for a loan subject to conditions being met, including that security is satisfactory to ANZ. Australian Credit Licence Number Close mobile menu Personal Home loans landing page.
I want to landing page. Calculators and tools landing page. Our home loans landing page. Fortunately, you don't have to have a specific mortgage rate in mind to use the Mortgage Qualifying Calculator. You can choose an approximate rate, enter the rest of your information, then use the sliding tool to see how a higher or lower rate will affect your results. That includes changing your amortization table and the interest paid over the life of the loan.
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