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11-46-55.1
Section 11-46-55.1 Recount procedures. (a) Any person with standing to contest a municipal
election may petition the canvassing authority for a recount of any or all precinct returns.
The time period for requesting a recount ends 48 hours after the official canvass of returns
by the municipal governing body. The petitioner must be prepared to pay the cost of the recount
and must be required to give security to cover these costs in an amount as determined by the
municipal governing body based upon an estimate of actual costs. The recount must be conducted
under the supervision of a trained and certified poll official. Representatives of opposing
interests shall be given at least 24 hours' notice and shall be invited to participate in
the recount. (b) The recount shall be conducted as simply as the type of equipment and local
conditions permit provided that the following minimum safeguards shall be observed: (1) The
box or envelope holding the ballots shall be delivered unopened to the...
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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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11-46-48
Section 11-46-48 Provision of election materials and supplies; preparation of lighting facilities;
posting and placement of diagrams and models. The municipal clerk shall furnish and deliver
with each voting machine: Lighting facilities which shall give sufficient light to enable
voters while in the voting machine booth to read the ballot labels and suitable for the use
of election officers in examining the counters; a model and two diagrams or sample ballots
of suitable size, representing such part of the face of such voting machine as will be in
use in the election, and accompanied by directions for voting on the machine; a seal or seals
for sealing the machine after the polls are closed; an envelope for the return of the keys,
if the construction of the voting machine shall permit their separate return; and such other
election materials and supplies as may be necessary. The lighting facilities above mentioned
shall be prepared and in good order for use before the opening of the...
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11-46-51
Section 11-46-51 Instruction of voters in use of machines; oath, etc., of disabled voters;
assistance of voters. (a) The election officers shall, with the aid of the diagrams authorized
by this article and the mechanically operated model, instruct each voter before he enters
the voting machine booth regarding the operation of the machine and shall give the voter opportunity
personally to operate the model. No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance in
voting at any election, unless he shall first state in writing upon printed forms supplied
for that purpose and under oath or affirmation, which shall be administered to him by the
inspector, that he is blind or that he cannot read the names on the voting machines or that,
by reason of physical disability, he is unable to see the machine or prepare it for voting
or to enter the voting machine booth without assistance. The voter shall state the specific
physical disability which requires him to receive assistance. Thereupon the...
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17-12-1
Section 17-12-1 Conclusion of voting; locking of equipment; certificates of result. When the
time arrives for closing the polls, all qualified voters, who are then waiting within the
voting room to vote, shall be permitted by the election officers to do so. After closing the
polls and sealing the required records, the precinct election officials shall follow the manufacturer's
instructions to lock the equipment against further voting and to obtain a printout of the
votes on each office and question. The first printout shall be torn from the equipment so
that all printing during the day, from the initial test before the polls opened through the
first printout of results, shall be on one continuous sheet or roll of paper. Then, four other
printouts of the results shall be produced and torn out. To each certificate shall be added,
if it is not automatically printed, the following information: (1) The name of the voting
place. (2) The date. (3) The identifying number (serial number) of the...
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11-65-6
Section 11-65-6 Incorporation of commission. The five persons initially designated as members
of a commission shall become a corporation with the power and authority provided in this chapter
by proceeding according to the provisions of this chapter. To become a corporation, the persons
so designated shall present to the Secretary of State an application signed by them which
shall contain the following: (1) A statement that the applicants propose to incorporate a
commission pursuant to this chapter; (2) The name and principal residence of each of the applicants;
(3) The date on which each applicant who is not an ex officio member was appointed as a member
and the expiration date of the term for which he was appointed; (4) The term of office for
each applicant who is an ex officio member; (5) The name of the proposed corporation, which
shall be "The _____ [name of the sponsoring municipality] Racing Commission"; (6)
The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation, which...
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11-46-32
Section 11-46-32 Election supplies. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality
shall at the expense of the municipality procure and superintend and insure the delivery to
the election officers at each polling place within the corporate limits of the municipality
of the necessary election supplies and shall also procure and deliver or cause to be delivered
to the municipal clerk a sufficient number of the absentee ballots and the envelopes therefor
prescribed by general laws and other supplies needed for the handling of absentee ballots
in such election in the manner prescribed by general law. In the event the municipal clerk
is a candidate in the election, he or she shall immediately upon receipt of the absentee ballots
and other supplies deliver the same to the person appointed pursuant to Section 11-46-55 to
act in his or her stead. (b) When paper ballots are used, such supplies shall consist of:
At least 100 ballots for each 50 registered electors at each...
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10A-2A-7.29
Section 10A-2A-7.29 Inspectors of election. (a) The corporation shall, in advance of any meeting
of stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting and make a written report
thereof. The corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace
any inspector who fails to act. If no inspector or alternate is able to act at a meeting of
stockholders, the person presiding at the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to
act at the meeting. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of inspector,
shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality
and according to the best of the inspector's ability. (b) The inspectors shall: (1) Ascertain
the number of shares of stock outstanding and the voting power of each; (2) Determine the
shares of stock represented at a meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots; (3) Count
all votes and ballots; (4) Determine and retain for a...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified
regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause
to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city
or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical
lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards
and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list
into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting
machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical
group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared
with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the
probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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22-21-352
Section 22-21-352 Further provision for amendment of certificates of incorporation or reincorporation.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in the last sentence of this subsection, any authority that
now exists, or that is hereafter organized or reincorporated (as the case may be) pursuant
to the provisions of the enabling statute, shall have the power to amend its certificate of
incorporation or certificate of reincorporation, in the manner hereinafter provided, so as
to provide: (1) That the governing body of an authorizing subdivision empowered (either alone
or jointly with the governing body or bodies of one or more other authorizing subdivisions)
to elect or appoint one or more directors shall so elect or appoint all or any of such directors
only from a list of nominees, as provided in subdivision (2) below, proposed by the board
and otherwise qualified, in accordance with law and with the terms of such certificate of
incorporation or certificate of reincorporation (as the case may...
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