§ 1-4-702 — Nominations of candidates for general election by convention

(1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a political party may choose to change
from the nomination of candidates by primary election to the nomination of
candidates by assembly or convention for all offices including, but not limited to,
united states senator, representative in congress, all elective state, district, and
county officers, and members of the general assembly if at least three-fourths of
the total membership of the party's state central committee votes to use the
assembly or convention nomination process; except that nominations by major
political parties for candidates for lieutenant governor shall be made by the party's
candidate for governor pursuant to section 1-4-502 (3). Such vote of the party
central committee shall occur no later than October 1 of the year preceding the
year in which an assembly or convention nominating process is to be used.

(2) A political party nominating candidates by party assembly or convention
shall nominate the candidates of the party and make such nominations public not
later than seventy-five days before the general election.

(3) Whichever method of candidate selection is chosen by a major political
party as between primary election, assembly or convention, all of the candidates for
that party at any level of office in that election year must be selected by such
method, except that the requirements of this provision shall not apply to a primary
for president of the united states if such an election is held.

Legislative History

Source: Initiated 2016: Entire section added, Proposition 108, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, December 27, 2016. See L. 2017, p. 2823.