2016 GENERAL ELECTION PROCLAMATION IN ENGLISH.PDF

GOVERNOR DOUGLAS A. DUCEY
STATE OF ARIZONA
PROCLAMATION
GENERAL ELECTION 2016
WHEREAS, Article 7, Section 11 of the Constitution of the State of Arizona provides that there shall be a general election of Representatives in
Congress, and of State, County and precinct officers on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the first even numbered year in
which Arizona is admitted to Statehood and biennially thereafter; and
WHEREAS, Article 6, Section 38 of the Constitution of the State of Arizona provides that the name of any justice or judge of the Supreme Court
or an intermediate appellate court, and any judge of the Superior court except for judges of the Superior court in counties having a population of
less than two hundred fifty thousand persons, according to the United States census, whose declaration of desire to be retained in office has been
filed in the office of the Secretary of State and certified to several Boards of Supervisors, shall be placed on the appropriate official ballot at the
next general election under nonpartisan designation; and
WHEREAS, Article 4, Part 1, Section 1 (10) of the Constitution of the State of Arizona provides that when any Initiative or Referendum petition
or any measure referred to the people by the Legislature shall be filed, in accordance with this section, with the Secretary of State, who shall cause
to be printed on the official ballot at the next regular election the title and number of such measure, together with the words "Yes" and "No" in
such manner that the electors may express at the polls their approval or disapproval of the measure; and
WHEREAS, Section 16-214, Arizona Revised Statutes provides that at least thirty days before a general election, the Governor shall issue a
proclamation containing a statement of the time of election, the offices to be filled, and shall transmit a copy of the election proclamation to the
office in charge of elections of the several counties;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of the State of Arizona, do hereby proclaim the
GENERAL ELECTION 2016
To be held in the form prescribed by law on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2016, which shall be Tuesday, November 8,
2016, for the election of the following officials: one United States Senator, nine United States Representatives in Congress, three Corporation
Commissioners, thirty State Senators, sixty State Representatives, one Arizona Supreme Court Justice, five Judges of the Arizona Court of
Appeals Division One, and one Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals Division Two;
And for each of the counties of the State, as prescribed by law, such county officers, judges, justices of the peace, constables, and school district
and community college governing boards, as may be applicable in each county;
And to afford an opportunity for the qualified electors of the State of Arizona to vote upon any referred and initiated measures or constitutional
amendments that are submitted in the form prescribed by the law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the Great Seal of the State of Arizona.
GOVE OR
DONE at the Capitol in Phoenix on this Seventh day of October In the Year
Two Thousand and Sixteen and of the Independence of the United States of
America the Two Hundred and Forty-First.
ATTEST:
SECRETARY OF STATE