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<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/usc/t5/s1502/a/3">Section 1502(a)(3) of this title</ref> does not prohibit any State or local officer or employee from being a candidate in any election if none of the candidates is to be nominated or elected at such election as representing a party any of whose candidates for Presidential elector received votes in the last preceding election at which Presidential electors were selected.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id4fe2d045-f67c-11e5-87ee-a95dc0577289">(<ref href="/us/pl/89/554">Pub. L. 89–554</ref>, <date date="1966-09-06">Sept. 6, 1966</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/80/404">80 Stat. 404</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/93/443/tIV">Pub. L. 93–443, title IV</ref>, § 401(b)(1), <date date="1974-10-15">Oct. 15, 1974</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/88/1290">88 Stat. 1290</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<th style="width:41.0pt ; max-width:41.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>Derivation</i></p></th><th style="width:70.0pt ; max-width:70.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>U.S. Code</i></p></th><th style="min-width: 95.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-left:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center; margin-bottom:0em;"><i>Revised Statutes and</i></p><p style=" text-align:center; margin-top:0em;"><i>Statutes at Large</i></p></th></tr>
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<tr style="border-top:1px solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;" class="leaders"><span> </span></p></td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt; padding-left: 2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;"><a href="/us/usc/t5/s118n">5 U.S.C. 118n</a> (as applicable to <a href="/us/usc/t5/s118k/a">5 U.S.C. 118k(a)</a>).</p></td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black; padding-left: 2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;"><a href="/us/act/1940-07-19/ch640">July 19, 1940, ch. 640</a>, § 4 “Sec. 18 (as applicable to § 12 of the Act of <span class="date">Aug. 2, 1939</span>; added <a href="/us/act/1940-07-19/ch640">July 19, 1940, ch. 640</a>, § 4, <a href="/us/stat/54/767">54 Stat. 767</a>)”, <a href="/us/stat/54/772">54 Stat. 772</a>.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="amendments" id="id4fe2d048-f67c-11e5-87ee-a95dc0577289"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Amendments</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1974—<ref href="/us/pl/93/443">Pub. L. 93–443</ref> substituted “candidacies” for “political activity” in section catchline and provision permitting nonpartisan candidacies for prior provision permitting political activity in connection with (1) an election and the preceding campaign if none of the candidates was to be nominated or elected at that election as representing a party any of whose candidates for presidential elector received votes in the last preceding election at which presidential electors were selected, or (2) a question which was not specifically identified with a National or State political party and deeming questions relating to constitutional amendments, referendums, approval of municipal ordinances, and others of a similar character as not specifically identified with a National or State political party.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="id4fe2d049-f67c-11e5-87ee-a95dc0577289"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1974 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Amendment by <ref href="/us/pl/93/443">Pub. L. 93–443</ref> effective <date date="1975-01-01">Jan. 1, 1975</date>, see <ref href="/us/pl/93/443/s410/a">section 410(a) of Pub. L. 93–443</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101">section 30101 of Title 52</ref>, Voting and Elections.</p>
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