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Election Administration | |
Section 102 | Voting instructions. |
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20A-5-102. Voting instructions. (1) Each election officer shall: (a) print instruction cards for voters; (b) ensure that the cards are printed in English in large clear type; and (c) ensure that the cards instruct voters: (i) about how to obtain ballots for voting; (ii) about special political party affiliation requirements for voting in the Western States Presidential Primary or in a regular primary election; (iii) about how to prepare ballots for deposit in the ballot box; (iv) about how to record write-in votes; (v) about how to obtain a new ballot in the place of one spoiled by accident or mistake; (vi) about how to obtain assistance in marking ballots; (vii) about obtaining a new ballot if the voter's ballot is defaced; (viii) that identification marks or the spoiling or defacing of a ballot will make it invalid; (ix) about how to obtain and vote a provisional ballot; (x) about whom to contact to report election fraud; (xi) about applicable federal and state laws regarding: (A) voting rights and the appropriate official to contact if the voter alleges his rights have been violated; and (B) prohibitions on acts of fraud and misrepresentation; (xii) about procedures governing mail-in registrants and first-time voters; and (xiii) about the date of the election and the hours that the polls are open on election day. (2) Each election officer shall: (a) provide the election judges of each voting precinct with sufficient instruction cards to instruct voters in the preparation of their ballots; (b) direct the election judges to post: (i) general voting instructions in each voting booth; and (ii) at least three instruction cards and at least one sample ballot elsewhere in and about the polling place.
Amended by Chapter 116, 2003 General Session |
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