REFERENCE TITLE: electoral college; electors; violation; classification |
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017
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HB 2302 |
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Introduced by Representative Kern
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AN ACT
amending section 16-212, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to presidential electors.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-212, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-212. Election of presidential electors; electoral college votes; violation; classification
A. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1956, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a number of presidential electors equal to the number of United States senators and representatives in Congress from this state.
B. After the secretary of state issues the statewide canvass containing the results of a presidential election, the presidential electors of this state shall cast their electoral college votes for the candidate for president and the candidate for vice president who jointly received the highest number of votes in this state as prescribed in the canvass. A presidential elector who knowingly refuses to cast that elector's electoral college vote as prescribed in this subsection is guilty of a class 3 felony.