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§115 | GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY-GENERAL, STATE AUDITOR, SECRETARY OF STATE, STATE TREASURER, AND COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES - RETURNS OF ELECTION TRANSMITTED TO SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; OPENING AND PUBLICATION OF ELECTION RETURNS; DUTIES OF SPEAKER AND LEGISLATURE MINISTERIAL IN OPENING AND PUBLICATION OF VOTES; PERSON HAVING HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES ELECTED; TIE VOTES; CONTESTED ELECTIONS

The returns of every election for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney-general, state auditor, secretary of state, state treasurer, and commissioner of agriculture and industries shall be sealed up and transmitted by the returning officers to the seat of government, directed to the speaker of the house of representatives, who shall, during the first week of the session to which such returns shall be made, open and publish them in the presence of both houses of the legislature in joint convention; but the speaker's duty and the duty of the joint convention shall be purely ministerial. The result of the election shall be ascertained and declared by the speaker from the face of the returns without delay. The person having the highest number of votes for any one of said offices shall be declared duly elected; but if two or more persons shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for the same office, the legislature by joint vote, without delay, shall choose one of said persons for said office. Contested elections for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney-general, state auditor, secretary of state, state treasurer, and commissioner of agriculture and industries, shall be determined by both houses of the legislature in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

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