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amount of time a governor-elect would need following
a November election to prepare to assume office. The
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committee also feels that the General Assembly should take '
office at approximately the same time as the governor
so that it might organize, but that there should be at
least a month between the time the governor takes office
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and when the General Assembly meets in plenary session.
This period would allow the governor to review the budget
and to prepare a legislative program. The committee recog-
nizes that 'this goal can only be met through coordination
of the executive article with the legislative article, and
the article on state finance and taxation.
This section also gives the General Assembly
power to select the Governor from among the candidates
having received a tie vote in the event no candidate has \
received a plurality in the general election. The committea
feels that it is desirable to provide some technique to
handle this remote contingency, but does not think it
necessary to provide for a run-off election because of the
i great unlikelihood of the situation ever developing.
This section also provides that candidates
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