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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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11-16-20
Section 11-16-20 Preparation of poll lists; numbering of ballots. The name of each elector
whose ballot has been received must immediately be taken down by each clerk on separate lists,
which shall be known as the poll list, and the number or the order in which each elector votes
must at the same time be entered by each clerk against his name, the first elector voting
being number one, the second number two and so on to the last elector voting, and one of the
inspectors shall correctly number each ballot with the number to correspond with the number
opposite the elector's name on the poll list. (Code 1907, §192; Code 1923, §284; Code 1940,
T. 12, §247.)...
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17-16-20
Section 17-16-20 Recounts generally. (a) When, in a general election, the election returns
for any public office, including a judicial office, reflect that a candidate is defeated or
any ballot statewide measure is defeated by not more than one half of one percent of the votes
cast for the office, or the ballot measure, as certified by the appropriate election officer,
a recount shall be held unless the defeated candidate submits a written waiver for the recount
as provided herein: (1) In the case of an election for any federal, state, circuit, or district
office, or the state Senate, state House of Representatives, or any other office that is not
a county office, a written waiver for a recount may be submitted to the Secretary of State
within 24 hours after the certification of the results of the election. Upon receipt of the
waiver, the Secretary of State shall immediately order the recount to be cancelled. (2) In
the case of an election for any county office, a written waiver for a...
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11-42-51
Section 11-42-51 Canvassing of returns; entry, recordation, etc., of orders, maps, etc., as
to annexation of territory. The judge of probate must canvass the returns as made by the inspectors
and if it appears that a majority of the votes cast at the election were "for annexation"
the judge shall make and enter an order on the records of the probate court adjudging and
decreeing the corporate limits of the city to be extended so as to embrace the territory described
in the resolution and designated on the plat or map attached to the resolution, and must cause
the certified resolution and all orders or decrees or judgments to be recorded in the records
in his office and must also cause the map or plat to be recorded in the map records in his
office, and from the time of the entry of such order such territory shall be a part of and
within the corporate limits of the city with the limitations, rights, powers, and privileges
set forth in this article. If it appears that a majority of the...
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17-13-14
Section 17-13-14 Counting of ballots; materials to be sealed; delivery and retention of materials;
posting of certificate of result. (a) No ballot shall be counted until the polls are closed;
and, before counting any ballot or examining the same, the voters' poll list, as provided
in Section 17-9-15, shall be securely sealed in an envelope designated to the appropriate
political party chair and the inspector shall write his or her name across every fold at which
the envelope, if fastened, could be opened. After the counting of the votes is finished and
certificates of the result have been prepared and signed, the inspector shall seal in a separate
voted ballots container all the ballots cast at such election. The following items shall be
placed into a records of election container, which shall then be securely sealed: (1) One
certificate of the results. (2) The spoiled ballot envelope. (3) Clerk's poll list. (4) All
partial ballot pads. (5) Stubs of ballot pads. The inspector shall...
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11-41-4
Section 11-41-4 Certification of election result to probate judge; census enumeration of inhabitants;
issuance, recordation, and filing of order of incorporation; filing fee. Within five days
after the election, the inspectors must certify the result to the judge of probate, who must,
if a majority of the votes cast at the election are for "corporation," cause an
enumeration of the inhabitants residing within such territory to be made by such inspectors
or other persons appointed by him and, within three days after such enumeration has been completed
and returned to him, shall make an order to be entered of record in the minutes of the court
that the inhabitants of such territory are incorporated as a town or city, as the case may
be, by the name and with the boundaries shown by the petition, whereupon such town or city
shall be vested with the rights and powers incident to such corporations granted in this title.
The judge of probate shall file, within 10 days after its issuance, a...
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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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17-6-28
Section 17-6-28 Requirements for write-in votes. (a) Write-in votes shall be permitted only
in non-municipal general elections and shall be counted as provided in this section based
on one of the following: (1) Upon a determination that the number of write-in votes for a
specific office is greater than or equal to the difference in votes between the two candidates
receiving the greatest number of votes for the specific office. (2) Upon a written request
satisfying the requirements in subsection (i). (b) The ballot for a non-municipal general
election must be constructed so that the voter can mark a write-in vote for each office in
the same manner that votes are registered for regular candidates. In order to cast a valid
write-in vote, the voter must (1) write the name on the ballot and (2) register the vote by
a mark in the space designated for that office. A write-in vote that is not registered as
provided above shall not be considered a valid write-in vote and shall not be included...
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17-4-2
Section 17-4-2 State voter registration lists. The board of registrars, when registration is
closed before a primary, general, or special election, shall certify to the Secretary of State
any additions, deletions, corrections, or changes to the state voter registration list. Except
as provided in Section 17-4-2.1, after registration has closed and within the 10-day period
before an election, the judge of probate and municipal election officials shall prepare and
print a report from the state voter registration list of the correct alphabetical lists of
the qualified electors registered by precincts, districts, or subdivisions of a precinct where
the precinct has been divided or subdivided, if not within a city or incorporated town, and
by wards and other subdivisions, if within a city or incorporated town, and no others. An
electronic archive in the database for the state voter registration list shall be recorded
simultaneously with the printing of each county's list of qualified...
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11-42-207
Section 11-42-207 Question submitted; conduct of election generally; form, marking, etc., of
ballots; appointment, etc., of clerks, inspectors, and returning officer; ascertainment, etc.,
of election results; entry of order as to adoption of proposed corporate limits, etc. (a)
The election shall be to determine whether or not the proposed corporate limits shall be established,
and such election must be conducted in all respects as provided by the general election laws
and under the same sanctions and penalties, except as changed by the provisions of this article
and except that no official ballot need be provided. (b) Each voter may furnish his own ballot
with the following words written or printed thereon: "For adoption of the proposed corporate
limits," if he desires to vote in favor of proposed corporate limits or "Against
the adoption of proposed corporate limits," if he desires to vote against the adoption
of proposed corporate limits. It shall not be necessary for the ballot to...
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