The election board of each precinct in which votes are to be cast by machine shall meet at the precinct polling place, at least one hour before the time set for the opening of the polls at each election, and shall proceed to arrange the furniture, stationery, and voting machine for the conduct of the election. The board shall cause at least two instruction cards to be posted conspicuously within the polling place. If not previously done, they shall arrange, in their proper place on the voting machine, the ballots containing the names of the offices to be filled at the election, and the names of the candidates nominated. If not previously done, the machine shall be so arranged as to show that no vote has been cast, and shall not be thereafter operated, except by electors in voting.
Before the polls are open for election, the board shall carefully examine every machine and see that no vote has been cast, and the machines are subject to inspection of the election officers. If the voting machine is equipped to produce a printed record showing the status of the counters, this record shall be produced by the precinct election officials immediately before the polls are open. The inspection sheets from each machine used in the election shall be available for examination throughout election day.
Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on the machine as a nominated candidate for office, are referred to in this section as independent ballots. When two or more persons are to be elected to the same office, and the machine requires that all independent ballots voted for that office be deposited in a single receptacle or device, an elector may vote in or by the receptacle or device for one or more persons whose names do not appear upon the machine with or without the names of one or more persons whose names do so appear. With that exception, and except for presidential electors, no independent ballot shall be voted for any person for any office whose name appears on the machine as a nominated candidate for that office; any independent ballot so voted shall not be counted. An independent ballot must be cast in its appropriate place on the machine, or it shall be void and not counted.
[S13, § 1137-a19; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 918; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 52.16]
86 Acts, ch 1224, § 20
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