Bill Text: IN SB0068 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Qualification for presidential primary election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-07-05 - Bill Withdrawn [SB0068 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-SB0068-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 3-8.
Synopsis: Qualification for presidential primary election. Provides that
as an alternative to submission of petitions with voter signatures, a
candidate for nomination for President of the United States may pay a
fee of $10,000 with the request to be placed on the primary election
ballot. Requires a candidate who files a request in this manner to file
the request in person. Provides that for the 2012 primary election, the
filing deadline for candidates for nomination for President of the
United States is noon on March 30 and the date for the election
division to certify candidates is April 6.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative
Procedure.
January 10, 2012, amended; reassigned to Committee on Elections.
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(b) Each petition must contain the following:
(1) The signature of each petitioner.
(2) The name of each petitioner legibly printed.
(3) The residence mailing address of each petitioner.
(c) This subsection applies to a petition filed during the period:
(1) beginning on the date that a congressional district plan has been adopted under IC 3-3; and
(2) ending on the date that the part of the act or order issued under IC 3-3-2 establishing the previous congressional district plan is repealed or superseded.
The petition must be signed by at least four thousand five hundred
(4,500) voters of Indiana, including at least five hundred (500) voters
from each congressional district created by the most recent
congressional district plan adopted under IC 3-3.
(b) A candidate filing a request under this section must file the request in person:
(1) with the election division; or
(2) as permitted or required by section 1 of this chapter, with the secretary of state.
(c) For the 2012 primary election, the following apply:
(1) Notwithstanding IC 3-8-2-4 and section 5 of this chapter, a request filed under this section for the 2012 primary election must be filed not later than noon, Indianapolis time, March 30, 2012.
(2) Notwithstanding IC 3-8-2-17 and section 8 of this chapter, the election division shall, not later than April 6, 2012, transmit to each county election board a certified list containing the name of each person qualified as a candidate for nomination for the office of President of the United States and the name of the political party whose nomination the candidate is seeking.
