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There shall be no primary election for City officers. Nominations for the Mayor, Auditor and Council shall be made by petitions signed by not less than 150 nor more than 300 qualified electors of the Municipality. All petitions shall be on the standard forms for the use of nonpartisan candidates for such offices. Group petitions shall not be used. Petitions shall be filed with the Board of Elections at least ninety days before the day of election.
(Amended May 5, 1970)
The ballots used in all elections provided for in this Charter shall be without party marks or designations. The whole number of ballots to be printed for any election for any office shall be divided by the number of candidates for such office, and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of ballots in each series to be printed. The names of the candidates shall be arranged in alphabetical order and the first series of ballots printed. The first name shall then be placed last and the next series of ballots printed, and this process shall be repeated until each name shall have been first an equal number of times. These ballots shall then be combined into tablets with no two of the same order of names together. One space shall be left below the printed names of the candidates for each office to be voted for, wherein the voter may write the name of any person for whom they may wish to vote.
The candidates at the regular Municipal election, equal in number to the places to be filled in each office, who receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. If it cannot be determined which of two or more candidates shall be declared elected, by reason of their having received the same number of votes, the election authorities shall determine by lot which of the candidates shall be declared elected.
No question submitted to the electors under this Charter shall be passed or carried unless a majority of the electors voting on the question shall vote in favor thereof, and if any State law governing such election shall require more than a majority vote the percentage of vote required to pass the measure under the State law shall govern in the absence of an ordinance of Council otherwise providing. The form of ballot to be used on all questions submitted to the electors shall be prescribed by Council at the time the question is certified to the proper election officials for the calling of the election.
All elections shall be conducted and the results canvassed and certified by the election authorities prescribed by general election laws, and all other matters relating to elections not herein or by ordinance of Council specifically provided for shall be determined by the general election laws of the State.