Reply #46: Qualification as assembly of electors [View All]

[LiberalFighter]

249.722 Time for filing certificate; filing officers.

• Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a certificate of nomination of a candidate for public office shall be filed not sooner than the 415th day and not later than the 70th day before the date of the general election.
  
• A certificate of nomination of a candidate for:
  
  • State office, United States Senator or Representative in Congress shall be filed with the Secretary of State.
    
  • County office shall be filed with the county clerk.
    
  • City office shall be filed with the chief city elections officer.
  
  
• For a special election, including an election to fill a vacancy that occurs after the 70th day before the general election, the Secretary of State by rule may adopt a schedule specifying the period within which a certificate of nomination must be filed. If the Secretary of State does not adopt a rule under this subsection, a certificate of nomination must be filed before the 61st day preceding the election.
  

249.735 Qualification as assembly of electors; records; notice; nomination by assembly.

• An assembly of electors is an organized body:
  
  • Of not fewer than 1,000 electors of the state for a statewide nomination.
    
  • Of not fewer than 500 electors of the congressional district for which the nomination for Representative in Congress is made.
    
  • Of not fewer than 250 electors of the county or any other district for which the nomination is made.
  
  
• An assembly of electors shall nominate candidates at a nominating convention. The convention shall be held in one day and last not longer than 12 hours. The signature, printed name and residence mailing address of each member of the assembly shall be recorded at the convention and entered of record in the minutes by the secretary of the assembly. Not less than the minimum number of electors required to constitute an assembly of electors shall have recorded their signatures in the minutes of the assembly and must be present when the assembly nominates a candidate. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes of the assembly for the office shall be the nominee of the assembly.
  
• Not later than the 10th day before the meeting of an assembly of electors, notice shall be published at least once in not less than three newspapers of general circulation within the electoral district for which the nomination will be made. The notice shall contain the time and place the assembly will meet, the office or offices for which nominations will be made, and the names and addresses of not fewer than 25 electors qualified to vote in the assembly who desire that it be held.
  
• Proof of publication of notice in subsection (3) of this section shall be made by affidavit of the owner, editor, publisher, manager, advertising manager, principal clerk of any of them, or the printer or printer’s foreman of the newspaper in which the notice is published. The affidavit shall show publication and shall be filed with the filing officer with the certificate of nomination.
  
• Not later than the 10th day before the meeting of an assembly of electors, a copy of the notice under subsection (3) of this section shall be delivered to the filing officer who will supervise the conduct of the nominating convention.
  
• The presiding officer of an assembly of electors shall deliver the signatures of assembly members entered in the minutes to the appropriate county clerks of the counties in which the assembly members live. The signatures shall be certified by the appropriate county clerk under ORS 249.008. A copy of the minutes, certified by the secretary of the assembly, and the certificate of the county clerk shall be filed with the filing officer with the certificate of nomination.
  
• If the assembly of electors designates a committee to whom the assembly delegated the authority to fill vacancies as provided in ORS 249.842, a notice containing the names of the members of the committee shall be delivered to the filing officer with the certificate of nomination.
  
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