NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 847

HOUSE BILL 1106

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 163-175 RELATING TO THE MARKING OF BALLOTS IN PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 163-175, as the same appears in the 1957 Supplement to the General Statutes, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"In all municipal and primary elections held in the City of Washington, in Beaufort County, where there are a group of candidates for the same office printed on the ballot and the names of several candidates therefor appear on the ballot grouped under the office for which they are running the elector shall cast his or her vote for as many candidates as there are offices to be filled, and where an elector votes for any number of such group of candidates less than the number of offices to be filled, such ballot shall not be counted for any of the group candidates for said offices. There shall be printed under the title of the offices for group candidates the number of candidates to be voted for."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.