Section 17-9.1-24 Change of designation.

RI Gen L § 17-9.1-24 (2019) (N/A)

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§ 17-9.1-24. Change of designation. (a) Any person who has designated his or her party affiliation pursuant to § 17-9.1-23 may change the designation on or before the thirtieth day preceding any primary election for which the person is eligible. Whenever any person desires to change his or her party designation, that person shall submit to the local board of the city or town in which that person has his or her residence, as defined in § 17-1-3.1, or before the clerk or other duly authorized agent of the board, and shall change his or her party designation and, after the information has been recorded on the form furnished for that purpose, the person shall sign his or her name and certify to the truth of the facts recorded in the appropriate spaces in the form. For the convenience of persons voting at a primary election, forms for changing party designation shall be available at all primary polling places. The presence of the forms at the primary polling place shall not be construed to allow a person to change his or her party designation within thirty (30) days preceding the primary election.

(b) [Deleted by P.L. 2019, ch. 109, § 1 and P.L. 2019, ch. 141, § 1].

History of Section. (P.L. 1994, ch. 171, § 4; P.L. 2000, ch. 4, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 2, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 109, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 141, § 1.)

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