20100609-IR-GOV100352EOA EXECUTIVE ORDER: 10-03 FOR: SPECIAL ELECTION

  • STATE OF INDIANA
    EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
    INDIANAPOLIS

    EXECUTIVE ORDER: 10-03

    FOR: SPECIAL ELECTION


    TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME, GREETINGS

    WHEREAS, The Honorable Mark Souder of the County of Allen, State of Indiana, was duly elected in the general election of November 4, 2008, to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, to represent the people of the Third Congressional District, Indiana; and

    WHEREAS, a vacancy exists in the office of United States Representative, Third Congressional District, Indiana, due to the resignation of the Honorable Mark Souder; and

    WHEREAS, the United States House of Representatives is in session and the people of the Third Congressional District of Indiana are and will be without equal representation in the United States House of Representatives.

    IT IS HEREBY DECREED, under the provisions of the United States Constitution and under the provisions of the Indiana Code, Title 3, Article 10, Chapter 8, that a need for a special election exists in the Third Congressional District, Indiana;

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., by virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby call a special election to be held in the Third Congressional District, Indiana, as constituted on November 4, 2008, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the Honorable Mark Souder, as a member of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress. Nominations shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Indiana Code 3-10-8-5, 3-13-1-4, 3-8-7-15, and 3-8-6-13 at least 50 days before the date of such election. Said special election shall be held on the 2nd day of November 2010. The candidate elected by the voters of said district in said special election shall serve for the remainder of the term of the office vacated by the Honorable Mark Souder.

    I DO HEREBY ORDER the Clerks of the Elkhart, LaGrange, Steuben, Kosciusko, Noble, Dekalb, Whitley, and Allen County Circuit Courts, by this Writ of Election, to hold such special election for the vacated office of the Third Congressional District, Indiana, as constituted on November 4, 2008, on the 2nd day of November 2010, in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana.

    IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of Indiana, at the Capitol, in the City of Indianapolis, this 28th day of May 2010.

    Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.
    Governor of Indiana

    SEAL
    ATTEST: Todd Rokita
    Secretary of State

    Posted: 06/09/2010 by Legislative Services Agency

    DIN: 20100609-IR-GOV100352EOA
    Composed: Nov 01,2016 12:56:27AM EDT
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