E Relating to elections; modifying certain timelines for the + distribution of money in the party accounts of the state elections campaign fund, for commissioner of revenue calculation and certification of estimates of+ the total amount in the general account and for candidate filing of spending +limit agreements; changing the date for holding precinct party caucuses; +requiring and providing for major political party candidates endorsed for +congressional, state constitutional and legislative office to appear on the state +party nominating (primary) ballot by party certification and by filing an +affidavit of candidacy, requiring candidates not endorsed to apply for a place +on the nominating ballot by party notification and by filing an affidavit of+ candidacy and petition, specifying certain notice requirements of the secretary+ of state, providing for certification of endorsed candidates, for party chair certification to the secretary of state or county auditor of the +names of qualified nonendorsed candidates and notice to affected candidates +and for the filing of petitions by noncertified candidates for a place on the +nominating ballot; requiring certification of governor and lieutenant governor +candidates as a team; providing for the signing and filing of party qualifying +petitions; requiring and providing for secretary of state verification of +signatures on party qualifying and nominating petitions and petitions in place of +filing fees; reducing the time limit for filing affidavits of withdrawal; +modifying the deadlines for establishment of combined polling places, for +election precinct boundary changes for general elections, for preparation of +eligible election judge lists and for certain duties of the secretary of state+ and the time limit for secretary of state notice to county auditors of +filings and for local electronic voting system plan changes; modifying the date for +holding the state party nominating election and primary and changing the state +partisan primary ballot to the state party nominating election ballot; +requiring the term endorsed to follow the names of endorsed candidates on the +ballot, exception; authorizing cities and schools to change primary election +dates and the corresponding filing and withdrawal deadlines; specifying certain+ term change instructions to the revisor of statutes (mk, ja)