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17-8-1
Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties. (a) The appointing board, or a majority
of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the holding
of any election in their county, shall appoint from the qualified electors of the respective
precinct, necessary precinct election officials, which shall include at least one inspector,
to act at each voting place in each precinct. The appointing board may appoint the number
of precinct election officials necessary for each precinct, provided that, absent consent
of the county commission, the total number of precinct election officials appointed in a county
shall not exceed the total number of precinct election officials who were paid by the county
for the general election held November 2004. In the event that the number of precincts or
voting places utilized in an election within a county is increased or decreased, the total
number of officials who may be appointed without consent of the...
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11-16-40
Section 11-16-40 Penalties for failure to perform duties required by chapter, etc. Any officer
or person who shall willfully or corruptly fail to perform any duty required of him under
any of the provisions of this chapter; or shall fraudulently alter or change the ballot of
any elector after it has been cast; or shall make any false or fraudulent count of votes;
or shall place in the receptacle for ballots any ballot not actually cast by an elector; or
shall take therefrom any ballot cast by an elector, with the intention of unlawfully changing
or affecting the result of the election; or shall make any false poll list or any false count
of the ballots or any false certificate to a poll list or to the result of the count of the
ballots; or shall wrongfully open the returns from any precinct or ward; or shall change,
secrete, destroy, or mutilate the returns from any precinct or ward or attempt to do so; or
shall prevent or attempt to prevent any such return from being made as required...
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17-12-15
Section 17-12-15 Time and manner of canvassing. On the second Friday next after the election,
at the hour of 12:00 noon, the sheriff, in person or by deputy, and the judge of probate and
the clerk of the circuit court shall assemble at the courthouse; and if there is no such judge
or clerk, or if either of them fails to attend, or if either of them is interested by reason
of having been a candidate at such election, his or her place must be supplied by a respectable
elector of the county, appointed by the board hereinbefore provided for the appointing of
the inspectors in the various voting places for the election, at the time of appointing the
election inspectors, and if the appointing board fails to provide for such member or members,
or if any member or members as herein provided should fail to attend at the time and place
herein mentioned, the sheriff shall supply such deficiency by a respectable elector of the
county; and if all such officers are of the same political party, then...
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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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45-18-70.09
Section 45-18-70.09 Identification of unassigned voters. An unassigned voter may identify himself
or herself for assignment in any one of the following ways: (1) He or she may identify himself
or herself for assignment by appearing in person at the office of the board of registrars
or before a deputy registrar, and answering such questions and submitting such proof as may
be reasonably required by the registrars or their deputies to establish the voter's identity
and place of legal residence, and that he or she has not become disqualified from voting in
the county or election district. (2) He or she may identify himself or herself by filling
in and mailing to the board of registrars the completed answers to such questions as may reasonably
be needed and mailed to him or her in a written questionnaire by the board of registrars,
or on a form which the board of registrars shall cause to be printed in all newspapers of
general circulation published in the county, or on forms distributed...
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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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17-9-35
Section 17-9-35 Preservation of ballots and records of voting machines. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED
AND RENUMBERED AS SECTIONS 17-16-1 AND 17-12-23 BY ACT 2006-570 IN THE 2006 REGULAR SESSION,
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2007. The voting machines shall remain locked against voting for the
time provided by law for the filing of contests and then shall have the seal broken only on
the order of that body which, under the general provisions of law, now has charge of and control
over ballot boxes in that county, municipality or other political subdivision, and if, in
the opinion of such body, the contest has developed or is likely to develop, shall remain
locked until such time as ordered opened by the court hearing the contest, or until a final
determination thereof; provided, that on the order of any court of competent jurisdiction
or on the order of any legislative body or governing body having jurisdiction over such election,
the seal may be broken for the purpose of proper investigation and when...
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11-42-133
Section 11-42-133 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen; division of wards into voting
precincts; rearrangement, etc., of boundaries of wards or voting precincts. (a) The council
or governing body of the annexing city or town shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed
to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the annexing city or town
on the number of wards, or enlarge wards so as to embrace all territory embraced in the annexed
city or town and so as to afford opportunity to all persons in the territory embraced in the
annexed city or town to vote in all elections and participate in the government of the annexing
city or town, and each ward in the annexing city or town shall have the same number of aldermen,
but in no event shall there be more than 30 aldermen or representatives in the council or
governing body of the city or town. (b) The council or governing body of the city or town
shall elect aldermen for the wards, embracing all the territory...
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45-19-110.04
Section 45-19-110.04 Methods of voter reidentification. A voter may reidentify himself or herself
in anyone of the following ways: (1) He or she may reidentify himself or herself by appearing
in person at the office of the board of registrars and answering such questions and submitting
such proof as may reasonably be required by the board of registrars or one of its duly authorized
employees to establish his or her identity and place of legal residence and that he or she
has not become disqualified from voting in such county. (2) He or she may reidentify himself
or herself by filling in and mailing to the office of the board of registrars the completed
answers to such questions as may reasonably be propounded and mailed to him or her in a written
questionnaire by the board of registrars, or on a form which the board of registrars shall
cause to be printed in all newspapers of general circulation published in the county. Such
questionnaire may contain such questions as are reasonably...
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22-21-175
Section 22-21-175 Board of directors. (a) The corporation shall have a board of directors in
which all powers of the corporation shall be vested. The board of directors shall consist
of (1) Two persons elected by the county commission of the county; (2) Two persons elected
by the governing body of the largest of the member municipalities, according to the federal
decennial census next preceding the date of the filing of the certificate of incorporation
of the corporation for record; (3) One person elected by the governing body of each of the
other member municipalities; (4) Two persons, each of whom shall be, at the time of his appointment,
a physician licensed to practice the profession of medicine in the county, resident in the
county and engaged in the full-time private practice of medicine, elected at a mass meeting
of the licensed physicians resident in the county; (5) Two persons elected or appointed by
a majority vote of all the active circuit judges of the judicial circuit in...
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