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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as
may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes,
the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts
established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered
qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but
also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being
sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The
county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic
voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be
installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated
and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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17-12-20
Section 17-12-20 List of registered voters open to inspection. After having ascertained the
result of an election, made declarations thereof, and made the certificates provided for in
Sections 17-12-9 and 17-12-16, the board of registrars must file the lists of the registered
voters in the office of the judge of probate, which shall be open to the inspection of any
elector of the county. (Code 1876, §293; Code 1886, §392; Code 1896, §1649; Code 1907,
§425; Code 1923, §515; Code 1940, T. 17, §204; §17-14-23; amended and renumbered by Act
2006-570, p. 1331, §56.)...
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17-6-6
Section 17-6-6 Adjustment of precinct configuration, boundaries, etc. (a) The county governing
body shall have sole authority to change the configuration, boundaries, or designation of
an election precinct. Any change so determined shall be adopted by resolution of the county
governing body. (b) A county governing body shall only change a precinct by dividing the precinct
into two or more precincts except when in order to make it more convenient for voters to vote,
or to facilitate the administration of the election process, or to accomplish reapportionment,
it becomes necessary to consolidate all or part of a precinct with adjacent precincts, a part
or parts may be consolidated. (c) Except as may be provided further by local election laws
or by the electronic vote counting statutes, whenever at any general or primary election it
is anticipated over 2,400 votes will be cast on an electronic voting machine , the county
governing body shall adjust the boundary lines of the election...
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17-9-15
Section 17-9-15 Disposition of records and forms after close of polls. After the close of the
polls in all primary, special, general, and municipal elections held in the state, the records
and forms produced at the polling places shall be returned as follows: (1) The list of registered
voters, the affirmations of provisional voters, the statements of election officials challenging
provisional voters, and the voter reidentification forms shall be sealed in an envelope addressed
to the board of registrars and the inspectors and any poll watchers present shall sign across
the seal. The board of registrars shall hold the list of registered voters while using it
to update their voter histories in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 4. A copy of the list
of registered voters shall be made a public record after the information specified in subdivision
(1) of subsection (b) of Section 17-4-33 has been redacted by the board of registrars. The
original and copies of the list shall then be...
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17-4-1
Section 17-4-1 Lists of registered voters to be published. The judge of probate shall publish
from the state voter registration list a correct alphabetical list of qualified electors either
by county, precinct, district, or subdivision wherein each elector is registered to vote,
in some newspaper with general circulation in the county, on or before the twentieth day preceding
the regularly scheduled primary election. The list shall be accompanied by a printed certification
generated by the state voter registration system verifying that the list contains the names
of all qualified electors registered as of the specified time and date when it was printed.
The list shall further state that any elector whose name was inadvertently omitted from the
list shall have 10 days in which to have his or her name entered upon the list of qualified
voters. If within 10 days any voter shall reasonably satisfy the board of registrars by proper
proof that any name should be added to the list, the board...
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17-12-8
Section 17-12-8 Count of votes to be sealed, certified, and delivered to sheriff; public inspection
of results. As soon as the ballots are counted, the inspectors shall ascertain the number
of votes received for each person and for what office and shall make a statement of the same
in writing, which statement shall be signed by them. They shall also certify in writing on
both the clerk's poll list and the voters' poll list, that the poll list is the poll list
of the voting places at which they were inspectors, the day and year on which the election
was held, and for what offices, which certificates shall be signed by them. The clerk's poll
list, as sealed and certified, shall be placed in the records of election containers to be
furnished for each voting place. The record of election containers shall be securely sealed
and delivered by the precinct returning officer to the sheriff as county returning officer.
No later than two hours after the polls are closed, the voting place election...
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17-6-3
Section 17-6-3 Voting districts; naming of precincts. (a) Except as may be provided further
by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the counties in this state,
as divided pursuant to this chapter into election precincts, and the boundaries of such precincts
shall so remain until changed by order of the county governing body, but the county governing
body, at its first regular meeting in March in each even-numbered year, shall subdivide any
election precinct in which there are more than 2,400 qualified voters and electronic voting
machines are used into voting districts or shall divide alphabetically the list of qualified
voters in such precincts into groups and assign each qualified voter a designated voting place
so as to provide an electronic voting machine for every person legally entitled to vote at
a polling place at which not more than 2,400 votes on a single electronic voting machine will
be cast. (b) Except as may be provided further by local...
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11-16-22
Section 11-16-22 Preparation and disposition of certified statements of votes and poll lists.
Immediately on the closing of the polls, the inspectors must count the ballots and certify
the number of votes cast "For removal to _____" and the number of votes cast "Against
removal," and certify on one of the poll lists that such poll list is the poll list of
the election precinct or voting place at which they were inspectors and the day and year on
which said election was held, and they shall securely seal up such statements of the votes
and poll lists, together with the ballots cast in said election, in an envelope or other wrapper
or receptacle and label the same so as to show the precinct or ward in which said ballots
were cast and deliver the same to the returning officer, and said returning officer must,
within 24 hours thereafter, deliver the same to the said board of commissioners at the courthouse
of the county. (Code 1907, §194; Code 1923, §286; Code 1940, T. 12, §249.)...
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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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17-8-7
Section 17-8-7 Poll watchers. (a) Except in the case of municipal elections, each political
party or organization having candidates nominated, by a writing submitted to the inspector
by the chair of the county executive committee or nominees for office or beat committeeman,
may appoint a watcher for each voting place. In the event of an election in which there are
no candidates, each political party, through a writing submitted to the inspector by the chair
of the county executive committee, may appoint a watcher for each voting place. (b) Watchers
shall have the right to: (1) Observe the conduct of the election. (2) Monitor the preliminaries
of opening the polls. (3) Remain at the polling place throughout the election until the results
of the election have been posted and the voting machines sealed, as provided by law. (4) Observe
the ballots as they are counted. (5) Observe absentee ballots and affidavits when they are
called during the count. (6) See all oaths administered and...
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