§ 168.395Candidates for justice of supreme court; death, withdrawal, disqualification;

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selection of new candidate, certification; ballots.
 Sec. 395.
    Whenever a candidate of a political party, after having been nominated to the office of
 justice of the supreme court or having filed an affidavit according to section 392a, shall die,
 withdraw, remove from the state, or become disqualified for any reason, the state central
 committee of any party which is thereby left without a candidate nominated or indorsed by
 that party shall meet forthwith and, by a majority vote of the members thereof, shall select a
 candidate to fill the vacancy thereby caused. The name of the candidate so selected shall be
 immediately certified by the chairman and the secretary of said committee to the secretary of
 state and 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 said ballots, in the
 proper place, the name of the candidate so selected to fill the vacancy.

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