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KENTUCKY ELECTION LAWS.



  President is elected, then he or they, when convened to vote
  for President, shall determine which of the candidates having
  an equal number of votes shall be deemed to be elected with-
  out casting any lot therefor. But if none is elected, then the
  board shall determine the election, by lot, between those having
  the highest and equal number of votes, except that they shall be
  arranged and drawn for in classes, according to their known
  pledges to vote for the different candidates, so that the whole
  vote of the State shall be given to the same person.
    11. Tie vote in election held by two or more contie&-
 how decided. Where the canvassing board of two or more
 .counties on comparison of the returns, or the board of canvass-
 ers for a county, find that two or more have received the highest
 and equal number of votes for the same office, they shall, by
 lot, determine which of the candidates is elected.
   12. Contested elections-how decided-members of General
 Assembly excepted. In case there shall be a contest of the elec-
 tion of Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney-Gen-
 eral, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of
 Agriculture or other State officer, or in case there shall be a
 contest of the election of a Judge or a Clerk of the Court of Ap-
 peals, Circuit Judge, Commonwealth's Attorney or Railroad
 Commissioner, or of any officer elected by the voters of a county
 or any district therein, excepting members of the General As-
 sembly, or of any police judge, clerk, marshal, or other elective
 municipal officer, where there is no other provision by law for
 4determining the contested election of such municipal officer,
 the contest shall be made by the filing of a petition in the circuit
 court of the county where the contestee resides, except where the
 officer is one elective by the voters of the whole State, in which
 event the petition shall be filed in the Franklin Circuit Court.
 Such petition shall be filed and process issued in the case of
 an officer elective by the voters of the whole State or any dis-
 trict comprising more than one county, within thirty days
 after the final action of the board of canvassers, and in case
 of any other office, within ten days after such action; and shall
 state the grounds of the contest relied on, and no other grounds
 shall afterwards be relied upon. (See, as to members of General
-Assembly, Secs. 1532, 1535.)
   Within twenty days after the service of summons upon him