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The 2001 Florida Statutes

Title IX
Electors And Elections
Chapter 103
Presidential Electors; Political Parties; Executive Committees And Members
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Section 103.061, Florida Statutes 2001

103.061  Meeting of electors and filling of vacancies.--Each presidential elector shall, before 10 a.m. on the day fixed by Congress to elect a President and Vice President, give notice to the Governor that the elector is in Tallahassee and ready to perform the duties of presidential elector. The Governor shall forthwith deliver to the presidential electors present a certificate of the names of all the electors; and if, on examination thereof, it should be found that one or more electors are absent, the electors present shall elect by ballot, in the presence of the Governor, a person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies as may have occurred through the nonattendance of one or more of the electors.

History.--s. 8, ch. 71, 1847; RS 206; GS 290; RGS 386; CGL 451; s. 7, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 32, ch. 77-175; s. 1, ch. 85-19; s. 604, ch. 95-147.

Note.--Former s. 105.03.