§ 168.169Candidates for state senator or representative; death, certification for statewide

office, withdrawal, physical unfitness, or disqualification; selection of candidate to fill
 vacancy; certification; ballots.
 Sec. 169.
     When the candidate of a political party, after having been nominated to the office of state
 senator or representative, shall die, be certified by a state convention for a statewide office,
 withdraw from the district, become physically unfit, or become disqualified for any reason, the
 members residing within said senatorial or representative district of the county executive
 committees of such candidate's political party for the counties comprising said senatorial or
 representative district shall meet at a time and place designated by the chairperson of the state
 central committee of such political party and notice of such meeting shall be sent to all such
 members of the county executive committees. The meeting shall be conducted by the secretary
 of the state central committee or his or her duly authorized agent, but said secretary or agent


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 shall not be privileged to vote at such meeting. A candidate to fill the vacancy shall be selected
 by a majority vote of the committee members present and voting: Provided, That if such
 vacancy occurs in a senatorial or representative district wholly within 1 county, a candidate to
 fill the vacancy shall be selected by the county executive committee of the county by a
 majority vote thereof. The name of the candidate so selected shall be certified immediately by
 the chairperson and the secretary of said committee to the secretary of state in those districts
 comprising 2 or more counties and to the county clerk in those districts contained within 1
 county. The certification shall be sent in any case to the board of election commissioners for
 each county, whose duty it is to prepare the official ballots; and said board shall cause to be
 printed or placed upon such ballots, in the proper place, the name of the candidate so selected
 and certified to fill such vacancy.