House Journal: Page 797: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
12 shall proceed to arrange the furniture, stationery,
13 and voting machine for the conduct of the election.
14 The board shall cause at least two instruction cards
15 four sets of instructions to be posted conspicuously
16 within the polling place. If not previously done,
17 they shall arrange, in their proper place on the
18 voting machine, the ballots containing the names of
19 the offices to be filled at the election, and the
20 names of the candidates nominated. If not previously
21 done, the machine shall be so arranged as to show that
22 no vote has been cast, and shall not be thereafter
23 operated, except by electors in voting.
24 Before the polls are open for election, the board
25 shall carefully examine every machine and see that no
26 vote has been cast, and the machines are subject to
27 inspection of the election officers. If the voting
28 machine is equipped to produce a printed record
29 showing the status of the counters, this record shall
30 be produced by the precinct election officials
31 immediately Immediately before the polls are open, the
32 precinct election officials shall print a report from
33 each machine showing that the counter is set at zero.
34 The inspection sheets reports from each machine used
35 in the election shall be available for examination
36 throughout election day.
37 Ballots voted for any person whose name does not
38 appear on the machine as a nominated candidate for
39 office, are referred to in this section as independent
40 ballots. When two or more persons are to be elected
41 to the same office, and the machine requires that all
42 independent ballots voted for that office be deposited
43 in a single receptacle or device, an elector may vote
44 in or by the receptacle or device for one or more
45 persons whose names do not appear upon the machine
46 with or without the names of one or more persons whose
47 names do so appear. With that exception, and except
48 for presidential electors, no independent ballot shall
49 be voted for any person for any office whose name
50 appears on the machine as a nominated candidate for
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1 that office; any independent ballot so voted shall not
2 be counted. An independent ballot must be cast in its
3 appropriate place on the machine, or it shall be void
4 and not counted.
5 Sec. 29. Section 52.17, Code 2003, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 52.17 VOTING MACHINE IN PLAIN VIEW.
8 The exterior of the voting machine and every part
9 of the polling place shall be in plain view of the
10 election officers. The voting machine shall be placed
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