1. The commissioner of each county in which the use of an electronic voting system in one or more precincts has been authorized shall determine the arrangement of candidates' names and public questions upon the ballot or ballots used with the system. The ballot information, whether placed on the special paper ballot, the ballot card or the ballot label, shall be arranged as required by chapters 43 and 49, and by any relevant provisions of any statutes which specify the form of ballots for special elections, so far as possible within the constraints of the physical characteristics of the electronic voting system in use in that county. The state commissioner may adopt rules requiring a reasonable degree of uniformity among counties in arrangement of electronic voting system ballots.
2. Where voting is to occur by use of ballot cards, ballot labels and a voting punch device, the ballot labels must be arranged on or in the voting punch device in the places provided for that purpose. Voting squares may be before or after the names of candidates and statements of questions, and shall be of such size as is compatible with the type of electronic voting system in use in that county. Ballots and ballot labels shall be printed in as plain and clear type and size as the space available will reasonably permit. Ballot cards shall be provided with tear-off stubs which shall be of a size suitable for the ballots or ballot cards used and for the requirements of the voting punch device. The ballots or ballot cards may contain special printed marks and holes as required for proper positioning and reading of the ballots by the automatic tabulating equipment. Where ballots or ballot cards are bound into pads, they may be bound at the top or bottom or at either side.
[C77, 79, 81, § 52.28]
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