§ 3302 — Party title, figure or device

Delaware § 3302

• Jurisdiction: Delaware
• Title: 15
• Part: Primary Elections and Nominations of Candidates
• Ch. 33: NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES BY PARTIES

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(a) The certificates of nomination shall designate a title for the party which the convention or committee represents, together with any simple figure or device by which its lists of candidates may be designated on the ballot. The figure or title or device selected and designated by the state conventions or committee of any party shall be used by that party throughout this State. Only 1 figure or device shall be used by a party at any election. The same title, figure or device shall not be used by more than 1 party, and the party first certifying a name, title, figure or device to the Department shall have prior right to use the same, and provided further that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party shall have exclusive use of such title and no other party shall use the word “Democratic” or “Republican” or any variation thereof in its title. Such figure or device may be the figure of a star, an eagle, a plow, or some such appropriate symbol, but the coat of arms or seal of this State or of the United States or the flag of the United States or of this State shall not be used as such figure or device.

(b) In case of a division in any party and claim by 2 or more factions to the same party name or title, figure or device, if the division occurs at a state convention or extends throughout this State, the State Board of Elections shall, within 10 days after any one of them has received the certificates of the contending factions, assemble in Dover, and determine to which faction the name, title or figure properly belongs, giving the preference to the convention held at the time and place designated in the call of the regularly constituted party authorities; if, within 5 days after, the other faction presents no other party name or title, figure or device and certifies the same to the Board, the latter shall again immediately assemble and select some suitable title, figure or device for such faction and the name shall be placed above the list of its candidates on the ballots. If the certificate of the contending factions are not received by the Board in time for them to assemble at Dover before publishing the device and list of candidates in the newspapers, then and in that case the Board shall determine for itself which faction shall be entitled to the name, title, figure or device and shall select a name, title, figure or device for the other faction.

Legislative History

19 Del. Laws, c. 37, § 4 ; 27 Del. Laws, c. 65, § 4 ; Code 1915, § 1722; Code 1935, § 1811; 43 Del. Laws, c. 129, § 1 ; 44 Del. Laws, c. 119, § 1 ; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 3302; 55 Del. Laws, c. 15 ; 60 Del. Laws, c. 447, §§ 5-7 ; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § 63