LD 1686
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Sec. 4. 21-A MRSA §321, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, is
amended to read:

 
§321. Time and place; procedure

 
Each party shall hold a state convention between March 1st and
August 1st biennially during each general election year.

 
1. Time, place and representation. The party's state
committee shall determine the time, place and basis of
representation for the convention. Delegates must be qualified
to vote in the party's primary election unless otherwise
permitted by party rules.

 
2. Proceedings at convention. The convention shall do the
following:

 
A. Elect a secretary and a chairman chair of the convention
in that order;

 
B. Adopt a platform for the next general election;

 
C. Nominate the number of presidential electors to which
the State is entitled;

 
D. Determine the size of the state, district and county
committees and the method of their election.;

 
E. Elect a district committee for each congressional
district; and

 
F. Elect a county committee for each county from persons
nominated at municipal caucuses held in the county, unless
party rules provide for county committee members to be
elected directly by their respective municipalities. If a
municipality entitled to nominate a person for election to
the county committee fails to do so, the convention may
elect any resident of that municipality to the county
committee.

 
Sec. 5. 21-A MRSA §322, as amended by PL 1997, c. 436, §46, is
further amended to read:

 
§322. Committee functions

 
Committees elected at the convention State, congressional
district and county committees of qualified political parties are
governed by the following provisions.


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