<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="8-503" title_number="8" title_name="Elections" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Presidential Elections">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For each presidential elector, a political party contesting the position, or an unaffiliated presidential candidate, shall submit to the State Board the names of two qualified individuals.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>One of the individuals shall be designated “presidential elector nominee” and the other “alternate presidential elector nominee”.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The names and residential addresses of the presidential elector nominees and alternate presidential elector nominees submitted to the State Board in accordance with subsection (a) of this section by a political party shall be certified to the State Board by the presiding officers of the political party.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The names and residential addresses of the presidential elector nominees and alternate presidential elector nominees submitted to the State Board in accordance with subsection (a) of this section by a candidate for President of the United States who is nominated by petition shall be certified to the State Board by the candidate.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The nominees for presidential electors and alternate presidential electors shall be certified to the State Board at least 30 days before the general election.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only if the agreement under § 8–5A–01 of this title is in effect.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the number of presidential electors nominated is less than or greater than the State’s number of electoral votes, presidential electors shall be nominated as provided for under Article III of § 8–5A–01 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
