The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 103
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS; POLITICAL PARTIES; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES AND MEMBERS

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F.S. 103.022

103.022 Write-in candidates for President and Vice President.—

(1) Persons seeking to qualify for election as write-in candidates for President and Vice President of the United States may have a blank space provided on the general election ballot for their names to be written in by filing an oath with the Department of State at any time after the 57th day, but before noon of the 49th day, before the date of the primary election in the year in which a presidential election is held.

(2) The Department of State shall prescribe the form to be used in administering the oath.

(3) The write-in candidates shall file with the department a certificate naming the required number of persons to serve as electors. The write-in candidates shall submit the Florida voter registration number and contact information for each presidential elector. Each presidential elector must be a qualified registered voter of this state. Such write-in candidates are not entitled to have their names on the ballot.

History.—s. 15, ch. 81-105; s. 9, ch. 83-251; s. 19, ch. 2005-286; s. 38, ch. 2023-120.

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Amendments to 103.022

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 103.022

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 103.022.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

B. FULANI, v. SMITH,, 640 So. 2d 1188 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

. . . Section 103.022, Florida Statutes (1991), provides as follows: Persons seeking to qualify for election . . . As applied to the November 1992 election, section 103.022 established a July 14 deadline for the filing . . . and injunctive relief in which they argued that the fifing deadline established pursuant to section 103.022 . . . stated that appellants had not demonstrated that the deadline chosen by the legislature through section 103.022 . . . not identify the specific provisions of the Florida Constitution allegedly infringed upon by section 103.022 . . .