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2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 291
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(1) The number of delegates and alternate delegates to be selected in the
State and the mode or modes of selection; and
(2) In the case of a principal political party:
(i) If delegates are to be elected by district, the number of delegates
to be elected from each district;
(ii) Provisions for placing on the ballot the name of a presidential
candidate, or the word "uncommitted", adjacent to the name of each candidate for
delegate; and
(iii) Any other provisions of the national party rules of the party
that relate to the election of delegates or alternate delegates at the primary election.
REVISOR'S NOTE: This section formerly was Art. 33, § 8-501.
No changes are made.
8-502.
(a) This section applies to the placement on the ballot in the primary election
of the names of individuals who are candidates for nomination by principal political
parties to the office of President of the United States.
(b) An individual who desires to run in the primary election may be placed on
the ballot only:
(1) By direction of the Secretary of State in accordance with subsection
(c) of this section; or
(2) By filing, in accordance with subsection (d) of this section, a petition
containing the signatures of at least 400 registered voters from each congressional
district in the State.
(c) (1) (i) Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the
Secretary of State shall certify to the State Board the names of candidates for
nomination by a principal political party during the period beginning 90 days before
the primary election and ending 70 days before the primary election.
(ii) The Secretary of State shall certify to the State Board the
names of candidates for the Democratic Party nomination on the first business day in
the year of the election.
(2) The Secretary of State shall certify the name of a presidential
candidate on the ballot when the Secretary has determined, in the Secretary's sole
discretion and consistent with party rules, that the candidate's candidacy is generally
advocated or recognized in the news media throughout the United States or in
Maryland, unless the candidate executes and files with the Secretary of State an
affidavit stating without qualification that [he or she] THE CANDIDATE is not and
does not intend to become a candidate for the office in the Maryland primary election.
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