1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.5 Sec.12
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CHAPTER 5 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS, TO AP- PORTION SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMONG THOSE DISTRICTS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT- ATIVES BY DISTRICTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
G. 8S. 163-137 is amended to read as follows: The county boards of elections of the several counties shall tabulate the returns made by the judges and registrars of the several precincts in their respective counties with reference to candidates in the primaries, so as to show the total number of votes cast for each candidate of each political party for each office, and, when thus compiled on blanks to be prepared and furnished by the State Board of Elections for the purpose, these returns, in the case of officers other than members of the State House of Representatives and State Senate in representative and senatorial districts composed of only one county, and county officers, shall be made out for each county in duplicate, and one copy shall be forwarded to the State Board of Elections and one copy shall be filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county from which such returns are made; in the case of a State Representative or State Senator in a representative or senatorial district composed of only one county, and county officers, such returns shall be made out in duplicate, and one copy thereof filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court and one copy retained by the county board of elections, which shall forthwith, as to such last mentioned offices, publish and declare the results.