52.18  Method of voting.

After the opening of the polls, the precinct election officials shall not allow any voter to enter the voting machine booth until they ascertain that the voter is duly entitled to vote. Only one voter at a time shall be permitted to enter the voting machine booth to vote. The operating of the voting machine by the elector while voting shall be secret and obscured from all other persons, except as provided by sections 49.89, 49.90 and 49.91 in cases of voting by assisted electors. No voter shall remain within the voting machine booth longer than three minutes, and if the voter shall refuse to leave it after the lapse of three minutes, the voter shall be removed by the officials.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 1137-a21; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 920; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 52.18]


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