Title 7 — Elections
11 chapters · 359 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-101 Primaries — General law governs
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All primaries, preferential and general, for the selection of nominees for federal offices, including those of the United States Senators and United States Representatives, shall be held on the same date and in the same manner as the preferential and general primaries for state, …
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-102 Filling Senate vacancies
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(a) Vacancies in the office of United States Senator shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. (b) (1) The appointee under subsection (a) of this section shall serve during the entire unexpired Senate term if the office would in regular course be filled at the next general …
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-103 Credentials of Senate appointee
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When the Governor shall make a temporary appointment of a United States Senator by authority of this subchapter, he or she shall deliver to the senator a credential in the following form:Click here to view form.
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-104 Filling vacancies in the House of Representatives
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When any vacancy shall happen in the office of a member of the United States House of Representatives from this state by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Governor, by proclamation, to order the sheriffs of the several counties to order an ele…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-201 Preferential elections required — Apportionment of delegates
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Each political party in the state desiring to select delegates to attend a quadrennial national nominating convention of the party to select a nominee for the office of President of the United States shall hold a preferential primary election in the state, and the delegates to th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-204 Rules for selection of delegates and alternates
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Each political party holding a preferential primary election in the state shall adopt appropriate rules for the selection of delegates and alternate delegates to the quadrennial national nominating convention of the party and to otherwise carry out the intent and purposes of this…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-301 Date of election
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(a) There shall be elected by general ticket in the manner and with the effect provided in this subchapter, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November preceding the expiration of the term of office of each President of the United States, as many electors of President …
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-302 Election and certification of electors — Ballots — Contesting conventions — Vacancy
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(1) Choosing and election of electors of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall be in the following manner:(1) (A) In each year in which a President of the United States and Vice President of the United States are chosen, each political party…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-303 Right of nominee to be candidate for other office
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(a) The appearance on the general election ballot of the name of a party nominee for the office of President of the United States or Vice President of the United States in lieu of the names of the candidates for electors for the offices shall not limit or restrict the party nomin…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-304 Delivery and canvass of returns — Tie vote
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(a) The county clerks of the several counties shall make, within eight (8) days next after holding the election as provided in § 7-8-302, three (3) copies of the abstract of the votes cast for electors by each political party or group as indicated by the voter as provided in § 7-…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-305 Publication of results — Certification of election
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(1) Within five (5) days after the votes shall have been canvassed and the results declared or the result declared by lot as provided in § 7-8-304, the Governor shall:(1) Cause the result of the election to be published;(2) Proclaim the persons composing the list so elected to be…
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-306 Voting by electors — Expenses
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(a) The electors, elected as provided in this subchapter, shall meet at the office of the Secretary of State, in a room to be designated by him or her in the State Capitol Building, at the time appointed by the laws of the United States at the hour of 10:00 a.m. of that day, and …
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-8-307 Vacancy — Appointment — Exception
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In case any person duly elected an elector of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall fail to attend at the United States Capitol on the day on which his or her vote is required to be given, it shall be the duty of the electors of President an…