Each candidate who shall seek a nomination for Governor, under
any method provided by law for such nomination, including primary
elections, shall at the time of filing for said office designate a
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and the names of the said candidate
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be listed on the primary
election ballot, or otherwise considered for nomination jointly with
each other. No candidate for Governor may designate a candidate for
Lieutenant Governor to contest for the said offices jointly with him
without the consent of the said candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and
no candidate for Lieutenant Governor may designate a candidate for
Governor, to contest jointly for said offices with him without the
consent of the said candidate for Governor, said consent to be in
writing on a form provided for such purpose and filed at the time the
said candidates shall file their certificates of candidacy, or other
documents by which they seek nomination. In any election, including a
primary election, candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall
be listed jointly on the ballot, and a vote cast for the candidate for
Governor shall also be cast for Lieutenant Governor jointly listed on
the ballot with him, and the election of Governor, or the nomination of
a candidate for Governor, also shall constitute the election for the
same term, or the nomination, of the Lieutenant Governor who was listed
on the ballot or was being considered jointly with him.
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