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MO Rev Stat § 115.589 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.589 - Records to be corrected to reflect judgment.

Effective - 01 Jan 1978   115.589. Records to be corrected to reflect judgment. — Each court or legislative body authorized to determine contested elections shall hear and determine each contest at the earliest opportunity after the official announcement of the results of the election has been made. Upon completion of the procedures provided for in this subchapter, the court or legislative body shall render its judgment based upon the issues of law and fact and cause a certified copy of its judgment to be transmitted to each affected election authority and to the secretary of state. Each election authority to which a copy of the judgment is sent and the secretary of state shall correct their records to conform to the judgment. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 13.420)  Effective 1-01-78
MO Rev Stat § 115.591 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.591 - Contestant to post bond, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   115.591. Contestant to post bond, when. — In each case of a contested election, the court or legislative body may require the contestant to post bond for the costs and expenses of the election contest. The costs and expenses of any election contest, including the cost and expense of a recount, may be adjudged against the unsuccessful party with payment of the costs and expenses enforceable as in civil cases. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 13.425, A.L. 1988 H.B. 933, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 115.593 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.593 - New election ordered, when.

Effective - 01 Jan 1978   115.593. New election ordered, when. — If the court or legislative body trying a contested election determines there were irregularities of sufficient magnitude to cast doubt on the validity of the initial election, it may order a new election for the contested office or on the contested question. The order shall set the date of the election and shall be sent by the clerk of the court or the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk of the house of representatives, as the case may be, to each election authority responsible for conducting the special election. In its order, the court or legislative body shall specify the name of each candidate for the office to be voted on at the special election, or the ballot title of the question to be voted on at the special election, and the election shall be conducted and the votes counted as in other elections. Notice of the election shall be given in such manner as the court or legislative body directs. The person receiving the highest number of votes at the special election shall be deemed elected and entitled to assume office, or the question submitted at the special election shall be deemed approved if a majority of the votes at the special election are cast in favor of the question. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 13.430)  Effective 1-01-78  (1989) Because voting by unqualified voters is an irregularity examined by the court in conducting a recount, it follows that such an irregularity may be considered in determining whether a new election should be ordered. When a number of voters are found to be disqualified and that number equals or exceeds the margin of the apparent victor, there are "irregularities of sufficient magnitude to cast doubt on the validity of the initial election." (Mo. banc) Marre v. Reed, 775 S.W.2d 951.
MO Rev Stat § 115.595 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.595 - Person holding certificate of election to hold office pending outcome — question shall be deemed decided as shown by returns pending outcome.

Effective - 01 Jan 1978   115.595. Person holding certificate of election to hold office pending outcome — question shall be deemed decided as shown by returns pending outcome. — 1. In each case of a pending election contest for an office, the person holding the certificate of election may qualify and take the office at the time specified by law and exercise the duties of the office until the contest has been decided. If the contest is decided against the contestee, the court or legislative body trying the contest shall make an order for him to give up the office to the person determined to be entitled to the office and to deliver to such person all books, records, papers, property and effects pertaining to the office. The court or legislative body trying the contest may enforce the order by attachment or other proper process. If for any reason the person determined to be entitled to the office does not or cannot take office, a vacancy shall exist to be filled in the manner provided by law.  2. In each case of a pending election contest on a question, the question shall be deemed approved or disapproved as shown by the official returns of the election until the contest is decided. When the contest is decided, the question shall be deemed approved or disapproved in accordance with the decision as of the day the contest is decided, or as of the day it would otherwise have been deemed approved or disapproved, whichever is later. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 13.435)  Effective 1-01-78
MO Rev Stat § 115.597 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.597 - Appeal from circuit court decisions allowed, procedure for.

Effective - 01 Jan 1978   115.597. Appeal from circuit court decisions allowed, procedure for. — In all cases of contested elections, except contested elections heard by the supreme court or the state senate or house of representatives, the right of appeal shall exist, and appeals may be taken in the same time or manner and to the same courts as is provided by law for appeals in cases in equity. The practice and procedure prescribed in civil actions shall be followed in all respects not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 115.553 to 115.583. Upon the filing of any such appeal, the court shall give the case preference in the order of hearing to all other cases and modify its rules to the extent necessary to conclude the appeal as quickly as possible. In every case of such appeal, a bond with sufficient sureties conditioned for the payment of the costs accrued and to accrue in the cause may be required by any court in which the case is pending. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 13.440)  Effective 1-01-78
MO Rev Stat § 115.599 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.599 - Parties may subpoena witnesses and take depositions.

Effective - 01 Jan 1978   115.599. Parties may subpoena witnesses and take depositions. — In all cases of contested elections, primary and other, the contestant and the contestee shall be allowed process for witnesses, and either party may take depositions, as in civil cases, to be read as evidence at the trial, as is authorized in civil cases. All such depositions shall be filed before the trial is commenced, and may be read in evidence no matter where the witnesses reside. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 13.445)  Effective 1-01-78
MO Rev Stat § 115.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.600 - Recount or new election, procedure — petition by election authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   115.600. Recount or new election, procedure — petition by election authority. — The election authority, if convinced that errors of omission or commission have occurred on the part of the election authority, election judges, or any election personnel in the conduct of an election, may petition the circuit court for a recount or a new election and the court is authorized to order a new election if the evidence provided demonstrates that the irregularities were sufficient to cast doubt on the outcome of the election. ­­-------- (L. 1983 S.B. 234, A.L. 1997 S.B. 132)  (1990) Remedies available to the Board are limited to filing a petition for a recount. Circuit court was without jurisdiction to order a new election. (Mo.banc) Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County v. Knipp, 784 S.W.2d 797.
MO Rev Stat § 115.603 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.603 - Committees each established party shall maintain.

Effective - 07 Jul 2016, 2 histories   115.603. Committees each established party shall maintain. — Each established political party shall have a state committee, a congressional district committee for each congressional district in the state, a judicial district committee for each circuit judge district in the state not subject to the provisions of Article V, Section 25 of the state constitution, a senatorial district committee for each senatorial district in the state, a legislative district committee for each legislative district in the state and a county committee for each county in the state, except any city not within a county which shall have a city committee in lieu of a county committee. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.001, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786) Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.605 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.605 - Purpose of committee.

Effective - 01 Jan 1978   115.605. Purpose of committee. — Each party committee shall be selected as provided in this subchapter for the purpose of representing and acting for the party in the interim between party conventions. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.005)  Effective 1-01-78
MO Rev Stat § 115.609 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.609 - County or city committee members, when elected (St. Louis City and County).

Effective - 07 Jul 2016, 2 histories   115.609. County or city committee members, when elected (St. Louis City and County). — In each city not situated in a county and in each county which has over nine hundred thousand inhabitants, all members of the county or city committee shall be elected at the primary election immediately preceding each gubernatorial election and shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. In each other county, all members of the county committee shall be elected at each primary election and shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.015, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786) Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.611 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.611 - County or city committee members, filing fees.

Effective - 07 Jul 2016, 2 histories   115.611. County or city committee members, filing fees. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 4 of section 115.613, any registered voter of the county or a city not within a county may have such voter's name printed on the primary ballot of such voter's party as a candidate for county or city committeeman or committeewoman by filing a declaration of candidacy in the office of the county or city election authority and by paying any filing fee required by subsection 2 of this section.  2. Before filing such candidate's declaration of candidacy, candidates for county or city committeeman or county or city committeewoman shall pay to the treasurer of such candidate's party's county or city committee, or submit to the county or city election authority to be forwarded to the treasurer of such candidate's party's committee, a certain sum of money, as follows:  (1) One hundred dollars if such candidate is a candidate for county or city committeeman or committeewoman in any county which has or hereafter has over nine hundred thousand inhabitants or in any city not situated in a county;  (2) Twenty-five dollars if such candidate is a candidate for county committeeman or committeewoman in any county of the first class containing the major portion of a city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants; or  (3) Except as provided in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection, no candidate for county committeeman or committeewoman shall be required to pay a filing fee.  3. Any person who cannot pay the fee to file as a candidate for county or city committeeman or committeewoman may have the fee waived by filing a declaration of inability to pay and a petition with the official with whom such candidate files such candidate's declaration of candidacy. The provisions of section 115.357 shall apply to all such declarations and petitions.  4. No person's name shall be printed on any official primary ballot as a candidate for county or city committeeman or committeewoman unless the person has filed a declaration of candidacy with the proper election authority not later than 5:00 p.m. on the last Tuesday in March immediately preceding the primary election. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.020, A.L. 1982 S.B. 526, A.L. 1983 S.B. 234, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1477 merged with H.B. 1557 & 1489, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786) Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.613 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.613 - Committeeman and committeewoman, how selected — tie vote, effect of — if no person elected a vacancy created — single candidate, effect.

Effective - 07 Jul 2016, 2 histories   115.613. Committeeman and committeewoman, how selected — tie vote, effect of — if no person elected a vacancy created — single candidate, effect. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 4 of this section, the qualified man and woman receiving the highest number of votes from each committee district for committeeman and committeewoman of a party shall be members of the county or city committee of the party.  2. If two or more qualified persons receive an equal number of votes for county or city committeeman or committeewoman of a party and a higher number of votes than any other qualified person from the party, a vacancy shall exist on the county or city committee which shall be filled by a majority of the committee in the manner provided in section 115.617.  3. If no qualified person is elected county or city committeeman or committeewoman from a committee district for a party, a vacancy shall exist on the county or city committee which shall be filled by a majority of the committee in the manner provided in section 115.617.  4. The provisions of this subsection shall apply only in any county or city where no filing fee is required for filing a declaration of candidacy for committeeman or committeewoman in a committee district. If only one qualified candidate has filed a declaration of candidacy for committeeman or committeewoman in a committee district for a party prior to the deadline established in this chapter, no election shall be held for committeeman or committeewoman in the committee district for that party and the election authority shall certify the qualified candidate in the same manner and at the same time as candidates elected pursuant to subsection 1 of this section are certified. If no qualified candidate files for committeeman or committeewoman in a committee district for a party, no election shall be held and a vacancy shall exist on the county or city committee which shall be filled by a majority of the committee in the manner provided in section 115.617. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.025, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1477 merged with H.B. 1557 & 1489, A.L. 1999 H.B. 676, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1342 merged with S.B. 675, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786) Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.615 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.615 - County committee to meet and organize, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   115.615. County committee to meet and organize, when. — In years when a primary election is held pursuant to subsection 2 of section 115.121, each county committee shall meet at the county seat on the third Tuesday of August. In each city not situated in a county, the city committee shall meet on the same day at such place within the city as the chair of the current city committee may designate. In all counties of the first, second and third classification the county courthouse shall be made available for such meetings and any other county political party meeting at no charge to the party committees. At the meeting, each committee shall organize by electing one of its members as chair and one of its members as vice chair, a man and a woman, and a secretary and a treasurer, a man and a woman, who may or may not be members of the committee. The county chair and vice chair so elected shall by virtue thereof become members of the party congressional, senatorial and judicial committees of the district of which their county is a part. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.030, A.L. 1997 H.B. 41, A.L. 1999 H.B. 676)
MO Rev Stat § 115.617 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.617 - Vacancy, how filled.

Effective - 07 Jul 2016, 2 histories   115.617. Vacancy, how filled. — Whenever a member of any county or city committee dies, resigns, or ceases to be a registered voter of or a resident of the county or a city not within a county or the committee district from which he is elected, a vacancy shall exist on the committee. A majority of the committee shall elect another person to fill the vacancy who, for one year next before his election, shall have been both a registered voter of and a resident of the county or city and the committee district. The person selected to fill the vacancy shall serve the remainder of the vacated term. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.035, A.L. 1982 S.B. 526, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 1987 H.B. 384 Revision, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786)  Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.619 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.619 - Composition of legislative, congressional, senatorial, and judicial district committees.

Effective - 07 Jul 2016, 2 histories   115.619. Composition of legislative, congressional, senatorial, and judicial district committees. — 1. A legislative district committee shall consist of the precinct, ward, or township committeeman and committeewoman from such precincts, wards, or townships included in whole or in part of the legislative district. There shall be elected from the membership of each legislative district committee a chairman and a vice chairman, one of whom shall be a woman and one of whom shall be a man, and each legislative district at the same time shall elect a secretary and a treasurer, one of whom shall be a woman and one of whom shall be a man, but who may or may not be members of the legislative district committee. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and for weighted or fractional voting.  2. The congressional, senatorial, or judicial committee of a district which is composed of:  (1) One or more whole counties; or  (2) One or more whole counties and part of one or more counties; ­­shall consist of the county committee chair and vice chair of each county within the district and the committeeman and committeewoman of each legislative district committee within the district.  3. The congressional, senatorial, or judicial committee of a district which consists of:  (1) Parts of one or more counties;  (2) Part of a city not within the county;  (3) A whole city not within a county; or  (4) Part of a city not within a county and parts of one or more counties; ­­shall consist of the committeemen and committeewomen of the precinct, ward, or township included in whole or in part of the district and the chair and vice chair of each legislative district committee within the district in whole or in part. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.040, A.L. 1988 H.B. 933, et al., A.L. 1990 S.B. 862, A.L. 1997 S.B. 132, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786)  Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.620 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.620 - Proxy voting, requirements.

Effective - 07 Jul 2016   115.620. Proxy voting, requirements. — Provisions for proxy voting for district committees organized under section 115.621 may be made by a political party. In the event that such provisions are not made, proxy voting shall only be allowed for legislative, congressional, senatorial, and judicial district committee meetings. In any event, a person may only serve as a proxy voter if such person is legally permitted to vote in the district in which the proxy resides. ­­-------- (L. 2016 H.B. 1477 merged with S.B. 786) Effective 7-07-16
MO Rev Stat § 115.623 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.623 - State committee to meet and organize, when.

Effective - 01 Jan 1995   115.623. State committee to meet and organize, when. — The members of the state committee elected as provided in section 115.621 shall meet at a time and place to be designated by the current state committee chairman. The meeting shall occur no earlier than two weeks following the election of members to the state committee. At the meeting, the committee shall organize by electing a chairman and a vice chairman, one of whom shall be a woman, and a secretary and a treasurer, one of whom shall be a woman, and who may or may not be members of the committee. In the event a vacancy shall occur in the office of chairman, a vacancy shall also be declared in the office of vice chairman and a new election shall be held for filling the vacancies of both chairman and vice chairman, one of whom shall be a woman. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.045, A.L. 1983 S.B. 234, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 1994 S.B. 650)  Effective 1-01-95
MO Rev Stat § 115.624 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.624 - State party committees may remove members, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   115.624. State party committees may remove members, when. — The members of the state committee of a party may remove a member of such committee upon a two-thirds majority vote of all state committee members voting thereon. Upon certification to the secretary of state by the state committee that a two-thirds majority of its members have elected to remove a member, such member shall forfeit his or her office and a vacancy shall exist on said state committee. ­­-------- (L. 1999 H.B. 676 § 4)
MO Rev Stat § 115.625 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 115 - Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections|Section 115.625 - Convention of delegates of established party authorized.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   115.625. Convention of delegates of established party authorized. — The state committee of any established political party may, except as otherwise provided by law, call a convention of delegates to be apportioned, chosen or elected in such manner as it may prescribe for the purpose of nominating presidential electors, electing delegates to national conventions, electing members of national committees adopting or making declarations of party principles on national questions, and to do and perform any other act not inconsistent with the law. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 14.050, A.L. 1986 H.B. 879)