16-452. Rules; instructions and procedures
manual; approval of manual; field check and review of systems;
violation; classification
A. After consultation with each county board of supervisors or other officer in
charge of elections, the secretary of state shall prescribe rules to achieve and maintain
the maximum degree of correctness, impartiality, uniformity and efficiency on the
procedures for early voting and voting, and of producing, distributing, collecting,
counting, tabulating and storing ballots. The secretary of state shall also adopt rules
regarding fax transmittal of unvoted ballots, ballot requests, voted ballots and other
election materials to and from absent uniformed and overseas citizens and shall adopt
rules regarding internet receipt of requests for federal postcard applications prescribed
by section 16-543.
B. Such rules shall be prescribed in an official instructions and procedures manual
to be issued not later than thirty days prior to each election. Prior to its issuance,
the manual shall be approved by the governor and the attorney general. The secretary of
state shall submit the manual to the governor and the attorney general not fewer than
ninety days before each election.
C. A person who violates any rule adopted pursuant to this section is guilty of a
class 2 misdemeanor.
D. The secretary of state shall provide personnel who are expert in electronic
voting systems and procedures and in electronic voting system security to field check and
review electronic voting systems and recommend needed statutory and procedural changes.
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