11-46-44
Section 11-46-44 Votes not to be counted until polls closed; disposition of poll lists and
affidavits; counting of ballots. (a) No votes shall be counted until the polls are closed.
(b) Immediately after the polls are closed at elections where paper ballots are used, the
poll list signed by the voters and the poll list made by one of the clerks shall be sealed
in separate envelopes and labelled before the inspectors begin to count the votes. (c) As
soon as this is done, the ballots cast shall be counted in the following manner: The returning
officer or one of the inspectors must take the ballots one by one from the box in which they
were deposited, at the same time reading aloud the name of each person receiving a vote and
the office for which the person received the vote, and they must separately keep a calculation
of the number of votes each person receives and for what office the person receives them.
If the elector has marked more than there are persons to be elected to an office...
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11-46-49
Section 11-46-49 Election officers for voting machines; duties. (a) At all elections where
voting machines are used, there shall be the following election officers for each voting machine:
An inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and a second assistant clerk; except, in the event
voting centers are established, then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the
number of election officials. (b) The inspector shall be in general charge of the poll, shall
see that the counter compartments of the machine are never unlocked or opened so that the
counters are exposed during voting, shall see that the other election officers perform the
duties imposed on them by this section, shall keep a record of all voters at such machine
who received assistance pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-51, and all other records
required by this article, and immediately after the polls have closed and the statement of
the returns has been made, shall deliver such statement and the key or keys...
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17-9-13
Section 17-9-13 Voting assistance; time allowed to finish voting. (a) Any person who wishes
assistance in voting may receive assistance from any person the voter chooses except the voter's
employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. The voter
is not required to state a reason for requesting assistance. To obtain assistance, the voter
must specifically request assistance by naming the person from whom assistance is sought and
by signing in the appropriate column of the voters' poll list. The person providing assistance
shall legibly sign in the adjacent column on the same line as the assisted voter's name. By
signing the poll list, the assistant shall certify that he or she is not the voter's employer,
an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. If the voter is unable
to sign the poll list, the person giving assistance shall write the voter's name in the appropriate
column and then sign his or her own name in the third...
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45-31-110.05
Section 45-31-110.05 Inspector, chief clerk, and assistant clerks; duties. (a) For each voting
center where only one voting machine is to be used, the election officials shall consist of
an inspector, a chief clerk, and two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than
one voting machine is to be used there shall be appointed one chief inspector who shall supervise
the conduct of the other officials and the operation of the voting center, one inspector and
one chief clerk, and for each voting machine to be used at such center there shall be appointed
two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than four voting machines are to be
used there may be appointed two additional assistant clerks for each group of four voting
machines or fraction thereof. (b) The election officers provided for herein shall be appointed
by the same officers that appoint other election officers as provided for in Section 17-13-48.
They shall perform all duties imposed on election officers...
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17-6-24
Section 17-6-24 Printing and design. (a) All ballots shall be in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter and shall contain a party emblem for each political party represented on the
ticket. The arrangement of the ballot shall in general conform substantially to the plan hereinafter
given, and in all cases the party columns must be placed in alphabetical order, beginning
on the left of the ballot. The list of candidates of the several parties shall be printed
in parallel and perpendicular columns, each column to be headed by the chosen device of such
party and the party name or other designation in such order as the Secretary of State may
direct. The number of columns shall exceed by one the number of separate tickets of candidates
to be voted for at the polling place for which the ballot is provided, and in the appropriate
place the words vote for one (or two or other number, as the case may be) to indicate the
number which may be elected to each office. On the right of each...
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11-46-28
Section 11-46-28 Polling place hours; duties of election officers; challenger; deletion of
absentee voter applicants from voter list; preservation of order. (a) Every polling place
shall open for voting at 7:00 A.M. and shall close at 7:00 P.M. and shall remain open for
voting for not less than 12 consecutive hours. All polling places in areas operating on eastern
time may open and close under this section pursuant to eastern time. The election officers
at voting places shall meet at the respective places of holding elections for which they have
been appointed 30 minutes before the hour established by the municipal governing body to open
the polls and shall at the designated hour open the several polling places as designated and
keep them open without adjournment or recess until the hour established by the municipal governing
body to close the polls and no longer. (b) Any qualified elector entitled to vote at a polling
place who has identified himself or herself with the election...
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17-11-5
Section 17-11-5 Delivery of absentee ballots; maintenance of voter lists. (a) Upon receipt
of an application for an absentee ballot as provided in Section 17-11-3, if the applicant's
name appears on the list of qualified voters produced from the state voter registration list
in the election to be held, or if the applicant qualifies for a provisional absentee ballot,
the absentee election manager shall furnish the absentee ballot to the applicant by: (1) Forwarding
it by United States mail to the applicant's or voter's residence address or, upon written
request of the voter, to the address where the voter regularly receives mail; or (2) by handing
the absentee ballot to the applicant in person or, in the case of emergency voting when the
applicant requires medical treatment, his or her designee in person. If the absentee election
manager has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has given a fraudulent address
on the application for the absentee ballot, the absentee election...
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11-46-61
Section 11-46-61 Offenses of election officers generally. (a) Any election officer appointed
as such by a municipal governing body who shall fail to attend a municipal election without
a lawful excuse shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $100.00. (b) Any election officer
who drinks any intoxicating liquors while any election is being held shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00. (c) Any election officer
who, without lawful excuse, neglects, fails, or refuses to perform any official duty prescribed
by this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, unless otherwise provided, and, on conviction,
shall be fined not less than $50.00. (d) Any election officer who discloses how any elector
voted shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00
nor more than $500.00, and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more
than six months. (e) If any election officer willfully...
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17-17-7
Section 17-17-7 Officers not to compare poll list with ballot. Any inspector, clerk, watcher,
or chair of an executive committee who compares the number on the poll list with the number
of the ballot of any voter for the purpose of ascertaining how any voter voted, except in
case of contest, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C misdemeanor. (Code 1907, §6821;
Code 1923, §3944; Code 1940, T. 17, §398; §17-16-49; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570,
p. 1331, §87.)...
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17-10-3
Section 17-10-3 Voting in precinct, etc., where elector's name does not appear on official
list. It shall be unlawful for any elector to cast his or her ballot during any general election,
primary election, municipal election or special election in any precinct, any district, any
ward, or any other subdivision where his or her name does not duly appear upon the official
list of the precinct, district, ward, or subdivision. All ballots cast in any election contrary
to this section are hereby declared illegal and, upon a contest duly instituted, the ballots
shall be excluded in determining the final result of any election; provided, that nothing
in this section shall prevent any qualified elector residing in the precinct, ward, or voting
district from voting after presenting a proper certificate from the board of registrars, or
from voting a provisional ballot or a provisional ballot in municipal elections when his or
her name does not duly appear upon the official list of the precinct,...
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