§ 168.42Presidential electors; selection at state political party conventions, certification

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Sec. 42.
     In the year in which presidential electors are to be elected under section 43, each political
 party in this state shall choose at its fall state convention a number of candidates for electors of
 president and vice-president of the United States equal to the number of senators and
 representatives in congress that this state is entitled to elect. The chairperson and the secretary
 of the state central committee of each political party shall, within 1 business day after the
 conclusion of the state convention, forward by registered or certified mail a certificate
 containing the names of the candidates for electors to the secretary of state. The candidates for
 electors of president and vice-president who shall be considered elected are those whose
 names have been certified to the secretary of state by that political party receiving the greatest
 number of votes for those offices at the next November election.

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