§ 168.845Certifying correctness of statement; certificate of determination; certificate of

election; declaration of vacancy; publication of constitutional amendment.
 Sec. 845.
    The members of the board of state canvassers shall certify as to the correctness of the
 statement provided for in section 844 and subscribe their names to the statement. The
 members of the board of state canvassers shall determine which persons have been duly
 elected to each office and which constitutional amendments and propositions, if any, have
 been approved or rejected. The board shall certify the determinations and deliver the statement
 and certificate of determinations to the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall file and
 preserve the statement and certificate of determinations in his or her office and shall
 immediately execute and deliver a certificate of election to each person elected. If the
 secretary of state receives notice before the certificate of determinations is issued that the
 person to whom the certificate of election is to be issued died, withdrew from the district, was
 declared legally incapacitated by a court having jurisdiction, or submitted to the secretary of
 state an affidavit declaring that person's intention to refuse the certificate of election, then the
 secretary of state shall not issue a certificate of election and the office shall be declared vacant
 as of the commencement of the term of office to which that person would otherwise have been
 elected. The secretary of state shall also publish any amendment to the constitution that is
 approved and ratified with the laws enacted by the legislature at its next succeeding session.