LD 1111
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Section 5. Election of Representatives; lists of votes
delivered forthwith; lists of votes examined by Governor; summons
of persons who appear to be elected; lists shall be laid before
the House. The meetings within this State for the choice of
Representatives shall be warned in due course of law by qualified
officials of the several towns and cities 7 days at least before
the election, and the election officials of the various towns and
cities shall preside impartially at such meetings, receive the
votes of all the qualified electors, sort, count and declare them
in open meeting; and a list of the persons voted for shall be
formed, with the number of votes for each person against that
person's name. Cities and towns belonging to any Representative
District shall hold their meetings at the same time in the
respective cities and towns; and such meetings shall be notified,
held and regulated, the votes received, sorted, counted and
declared in the same manner. Fair copies of the lists of votes
shall be attested by the municipal officers and the clerks of the
cities and towns and the city and town clerks respectively shall
cause the same to be delivered into the office of the Secretary
of State forthwith. The Governor shall examine the returned
copies of such lists and 7 days before the first Wednesday of
December biennially following the general election, shall issue a
summons to such persons as shall appear to have been elected by a
plurality of all votes returned, to attend and take their seats.
All such lists shall be laid before the House of Representatives
on the first Wednesday of December biennially following the
general election, and they shall finally determine who are
elected.

 
Constitution, Art. IV, Pt. Second, §1 is amended to read:

 
Section 1. Number of Senators. The Senate shall consist of
an odd number of Senators, not less than 31 nor more than 35,
elected at the same time and for the same term as Representatives
by the qualified electors of the districts into which the State
shall be from time to time divided. A Senator may not serve more
than 3 consecutive terms.

 
Constitution, Art. IV, Pt. Second, §5 is amended to read:

 
Section 5. Determination of Senators elected; procedure for
filling vacancies. The Senate shall, on said first Wednesday of
December, biennially following the general election, determine
who is elected by a plurality of votes to be Senator in each
district. All vacancies in the Senate arising from death,
resignation, removal from the State or like causes, and also
vacancies, if any, which may occur because of the failure of any
district to elect by a plurality of votes the Senator to which
said district shall be entitled shall be filled by an immediate

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