PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

§16-1  Voting systems authorized.  Thechief election officer may adopt, experiment with, or abandon any voting systemauthorized under this chapter or to be authorized by the legislature.  Thesesystems shall include, but not be limited to voting machines, paper ballots,and electronic voting systems.  All voting systems approved by the chiefelection officer under this chapter are authorized for use in all elections forvoting, registering, and counting votes cast at the election.

Voting systems of different kinds may, at thediscretion of the chief election officer, be adopted for different precinctswithin the same district.  The chief election officer may provide for theexperimental use at any election, in one or more precincts, of a voting systemwithout a formal adoption thereof and its use at the election shall be as validfor all purposes as if it had been permanently adopted; provided that if avoting machine is used experimentally under this paragraph it need not meet therequirements of section 16-12. [L 1970, c 26, pt of §2]