ARTICLE 11 - PREPARATION FOR AND CONDUCT OF PRIMARIES AND ELECTIONS
- PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 21-2-400 - Duty of superintendent to obtain cards of instruction, blank forms of oaths, and other forms and supplies; preparation and distribution of sample or facsimile ballot labels
- § 21-2-401 - Delivery of forms and supplies to precincts; distribution of copy of certified electors list; contents of list; authentication of lists; return receipts; master list of county or munici
- § 21-2-402 - Preparation of voter's certificates by Secretary of State; form of certificates; binders for certificates; other voter's certificates
- § 21-2-403 - Time for opening and closing of polls
- § 21-2-404 - Affording employees time off to vote
- § 21-2-405 - Meeting of poll officers at place of primary or election; oaths; failure of poll officer to appear; custodians of voting materials; temporary absence or disability; poll workers working
- § 21-2-406 - Public performance of duties by officials
- § 21-2-407 - Duty of registrars to review qualifications of electors who may have been erroneously omitted from list of electors; authority to place such electors on the list
- § 21-2-408 - Poll watchers; designation; duties; removal for interference with election; reports by poll watchers of infractions or irregularities; ineligibility of candidates to serve as poll watch
- § 21-2-409 - Assisting electors who cannot read English or who have disabilities
- § 21-2-409.1 - Voting by electors who are 75 years of age or older or disabled electors without having to wait in line
- § 21-2-410 - Poll officers authorized to give instructions to electors upon request
- § 21-2-411 - Return of checked list of electors and voter's certificates to superintendent; disposition of list and certificates by registrars
- § 21-2-412 - Duties of superior courts on days of primaries and elections
- § 21-2-413 - Conduct of voters, campaigners, and others at polling places generally
- § 21-2-414 - Restrictions on campaign activities and public opinion polling within the vicinity of a polling place; cellular phone use prohibited; prohibition of candidates from entering certain pol
- § 21-2-415 - Requirements as to identification of campaign literature; unauthorized use of another's name in connection with campaign material; penalty
- § 21-2-416 - Methods of casting ballots in elections utilizing paper ballots or vote recorders
- § 21-2-417 - Presentation of identification to poll workers; form of proper identification; swearing of statement when unable to produce proper identification; provisional ballots for those; penalty
- § 21-2-417.1 - Voter identification card
- § 21-2-418 - Provisional ballots
- § 21-2-419 - Validation of provisional ballots; reporting to Secretary of State
- PART 2 - PRECINCTS USING PAPER BALLOTS
- § 21-2-430 - Opening of ballot boxes; destruction of irrelevant materials; locking of ballot box; public breaking of seals; instruction cards and notices of penalties
- § 21-2-431 - Execution of voter's certificate; procedure upon qualification of elector; elector unable to sign name; voting outside precinct of residence; registration as prerequisite to voting
- § 21-2-432 - Voter's certificate binder as constituting official list of electors; separate preservation and disposition of refused applications
- § 21-2-433 - Admission of electors to enclosed space; detachment of ballots from stubs and distribution of ballots to electors; return of canceled ballots to superintendent
- § 21-2-434 - Restrictions as to removal of ballots from book or polling place; deposit of official ballots in box; disposition of unofficial ballots
- § 21-2-435 - Procedure as to marking and depositing of ballots
- § 21-2-436 - Duties of poll officers after the close of the polls
- § 21-2-437 - Procedure as to count and return of votes generally; void ballots
- § 21-2-438 - Ballots identifying voter, not marked, or improperly marked declared void
- § 21-2-439 - Decisions concerning questionable marks or defaced or mutilated ballots
- § 21-2-440 - Duty of poll officers to sign general returns; posting of copy of returns; delivery of copy of materials to superintendent
- PART 3 - PRECINCTS USING VOTING MACHINES
- § 21-2-450 - Opening of polls; procedure when ballot labels misplaced; certification by managers; machines to be locked until polls open; officers to be near machines; inspection of machines; broken
- § 21-2-451 - Execution of voter's certificate; procedure upon qualification of elector; elector unable to sign name; voting outside of precinct of residence; registration prerequisite to voting
- § 21-2-452 - Admission of electors to enclosed space; voting procedure generally; procedure as to write-in votes; voting by electors whose right to vote is challenged; disabled voters
- § 21-2-453 - Voter's certificate binder as constituting official list; separate preservation and return of refused applications
- § 21-2-454 - Duties of poll officers after the close of the polls
- § 21-2-455 - Canvass and return of votes
- § 21-2-456 - Form of general return sheet, duplicate return sheets, and statement; posting of vote results; delivery of documents to superintendent; seal and return of electors list upon completion
- § 21-2-457 - Removal, storage, and examination of voting machines after completion of vote count
- PART 4 - PRECINCTS USING VOTE RECORDERS
- PART 5 - PRECINCTS USING OPTICAL SCANNING VOTING EQUIPMENT
- § 21-2-480 - Caption for ballots; party designations; form and arrangement
- § 21-2-481 - Design, size, and stock of ballots
- § 21-2-482 - Absentee ballots for precincts using optical scanning voting equipment
- § 21-2-483 - Counting of ballots; public accessibility to tabulating center and precincts; execution of ballot recap forms; preparation of duplicate ballots
- § 21-2-484 - Requirements for ballot recap form; delivery
- § 21-2-485 - Responsibilities of poll officers
- § 21-2-486 - Votes for write-in candidates