§ 6-104. Party designation; statewide office. 1. Party designation of
a candidate for nomination for any office to be filled by the voters of
the entire state shall be made by the state committee. A designation for
the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, shall be made jointly
by a single majority vote of such committee.

2. The state committee shall make a decision by majority vote. The
person or persons receiving the majority vote shall be the party's
designated candidate or pair of candidates for nomination, and all other
persons who shall have received twenty-five percent or more of the vote
cast on any ballot shall have the right to make written demand, duly
acknowledged, to the state board of elections that their names appear on
the primary ballot as candidates for such nomination. Such demand shall
be made not later than seven days after such meeting and may be
withdrawn in the same manner within fourteen days after such meeting;
provided however, that in the case of the joint designation for the
offices of governor and lieutenant governor made pursuant to subdivision
five of this section, such right to make a written demand shall be
afforded only to a pair of candidates who jointly sought such
designation where the candidate for governor in such pair received
twenty-five percent or more of the vote cast on any ballot for such
office, and such demand must be made jointly by both candidates in such
pair for their names to appear jointly on the primary ballot as
candidates for nomination for such offices.

3. In the absence of a party rule forming and designating the members
of a committee to fill any vacancy in designations which may occur after
the state committee has adjourned its meeting and before the primary
election, the state committee shall also enact a resolution forming such
a committee and selecting the members of same.

4. Upon the vote for such designation, each member of the state
committee shall be entitled to cast a number of votes which shall be in
accordance with the ratio which the number of votes cast for the party
candidate for governor on the line or column of the party at the last
preceding general state election in the unit of representation of such
member bears to the total vote cast on such line or column at such
election for such candidate in the entire state. The apportionment of
such votes as so prescribed shall be determined by the rules of the
party.

5. Enrolled members of the party may make other designations by
petition for members of the same party. A petition designating a
candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor shall be
valid only if such petition jointly designates candidates for both such
offices on such petition.

6. The meeting of the state committee for the purpose of designating
candidates shall be held not earlier than twenty-one days before the
first day to sign designating petitions and not later than the first day
to sign designating petitions for the primary election.

7. Within four days after such meeting, the state committee shall file
with the state board of elections.

(a) The names of persons who have received the designation of the
state committee and the offices for which designated, and the name of
each person who received twenty-five percent or more, of the vote on any
ballot and the offices for which they received such vote.

(b) The names of the persons selected as the committee to fill
vacancies or a certified copy of the party rule forming and empowering
such a committee to fill vacancies.

8. No person may be designated by a state committee for more than one
statewide office pursuant to the provisions of this section.