[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR717.17]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 717--HOLDING OF REFERENDA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 717.17  State committee's reporting and record of result of the referendum.

    The State committee for each State shall notify the Deputy 
Administrator by telegraph or telephone as to the preliminary count of 
the votes in the State as soon as the preliminary results of the 
referendum are made known to the State committee. The county summaries 
of ballots shall be summarized on the State summary of ballots as soon 
as possible, but in no event later than 7 calendar days after the date 
of the referendum, unless there is a dispute or challenge regarding the 
correctness of the summary for any county, in which case the State 
committee shall complete its investigation thereof, decide the dispute 
or challenge, and prepare the State summary accordingly within 14 
calendar

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days after the date of the referendum. The State summary shall be 
prepared in triplicate and certified to by the State executive director. 
The original and one copy of the State summary shall be forwarded to the 
Director of the FSA Division having the responsibility for the commodity 
for which the referendum was held. One copy of the State summary shall 
be filed for a period of 5 years in the office of the State committee 
available for public inspection.

[33 FR 18345, Dec. 11, 1968, as amended by Amdt. 1, 34 FR 12940, Aug. 9, 
1969]

                    Holding Referenda by Mail Ballot