Kansas Statutes

Chapter 25: Elections

Article 8: Presidential Electors

Statutes:

• 25-801: Certified list of electors; delivery.
• 25-802: Meeting of electors; vacancies, how filled; duties of electors.
• 25-803: Compensation of electors.
• 25-804: Selection of presidential electors.

• 25-801: Certified list of electors; delivery. The secretary of state shall prepare a list of the names of the electors of president and vice-president of the United States, elected at any election, procure thereto the signature of the governor, affix the seal of the state to the same, and deliver such certificate, thus signed, to one of said electors on or before the first Wednesday in December, next after such election.

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 36, § 42; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 25-801.

• 25-802: Meeting of electors; vacancies, how filled; duties of electors. The electors of president and vice-president of the United States shall convene at the capital of the state on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after their election, at the hour of twelve o'clock at noon of that day; and if there shall be any vacancy in the office of electors, occasioned by death, refusal to act, neglect to attend, or other cause, the electors present shall immediately proceed to fill, by ballot and by a plurality of votes, such vacancy in the electoral college; and when the electors shall appear, or the vacancies shall have been filled as above provided, they shall proceed to perform the duties required of such electors by the constitution and laws of the United States.

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 36, § 43; L. 1887, ch. 155, § 1; R.S. 1923, 25-802; L. 1929, ch. 178, § 1; L. 1935, ch. 175, § 1; May 15.

• 25-803: Compensation of electors. Every elector of the state for the election of president and vice-president of the United States who shall attend and give his vote for those officers at the time and place appointed by law, shall be entitled to receive the sum of three dollars per day for each day's attendance at such election, and fifteen cents per mile for each mile he shall travel in going to and returning from the place where the electors shall meet, by the most usual route of travel, to be paid out of the state treasury.

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 36, § 44; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 25-803.

• 25-804: Selection of presidential electors. Presidential electors for presidential candidates shall be selected by the state committee of the political party of the candidates, if there is such a committee. Names of the presidential electors so selected shall be certified to the secretary of state by the chairperson of the committee. Presidential electors for independent presidential candidates shall be selected and certified to the secretary of state by such candidates. Presidential electors for presidential candidates of a political party which has no state committee may be selected and certified to the secretary of state by state party convention or by the national committee of such party.

        History:   L. 1981, ch. 165, § 10; July 1.