Election Procedure

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Sec. 3. The attorney commissioners of the judicial nominating commission shall be elected by the following process:

(1) The clerk of the supreme court shall, at least ninety (90) days before the date of an election, send a notice to the electronic mail address for each qualified elector shown on the records of the clerk informing the electors that nominations for the election must be made to the clerk of the supreme court at least sixty (60) days before the election.

(2) A nomination in writing accompanied by a signed petition of thirty (30) electors from the nominee's district, and the written consent of the nominee shall be filed, by mail or otherwise, by any electors or group of electors admitted to the practice of law in Indiana who reside in the same district as the nominee, in the office of the clerk of the supreme court at least sixty (60) days before the election.

(3) The clerk of the supreme court shall prepare separate ballots for each court of appeals district. These ballots must contain the names and business addresses of all nominees residing within the district for which the ballots are prepared, and whose written nominations, petitions, and written statements of consent have been received sixty (60) days before the election.

(4) The electronic ballot must read, in all material respects, as follows:

Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission

ELECTRONIC BALLOT FOR DISTRICT ( )

To be cast by individuals residing in District ( ) and registered with the Clerk of the Supreme Court as an attorney in good standing under the requirements of the Supreme Court. Vote for one (1) member listed below for Indiana Judicial Nominating Commissioner for the term commencing _______.


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