Chapter 293 - Elections
- EARLY VOTING BY PERSONAL APPEARANCE
- 293.356 - Issuance of ballot; location at which ballot must be voted.
- 293.3561 - County clerk to establish criteria for selection of permanent and temporary polling places for early voting by personal appearance.
- 293.3564 - Permanent polling places for early voting.
- 293.3568 - Period for early voting; hours for permanent polling places.
- 293.3572 - Temporary branch polling places: Authority of county clerk to establish; hours during which voting may be conducted; legal rights and remedies of property owners or lessors not affected by
- 293.3576 - Schedule of locations and times for early voting.
- 293.358 - Appointment of deputy clerks.
- 293.3583 - Mechanical recording devices: Preparation before polls open each day.
- 293.3585 - Procedure for voting.
- 293.3594 - Security precautions.
- 293.3604 - Mechanical recording devices: Duties of election board at close of each voting day; duties of ballot board for early voting and county clerk at close of last voting day.
- 293.3606 - Returns; secrecy of ballots; disseminating information about count of returns before polls close prohibited; penalty.
- 293.3608 - County clerk to ensure that mechanical recording devices used for early voting provide record of number of votes; delivery of records and other items to central counting place.
- 293.361 - Electioneering prohibited near polling place; penalty.
- ELECTION EXPENSES
- 293.437 - Designation of polling places.
- 293.440 - List of persons registered to vote in precinct, district or county: Distribution of copies; contents; limitation on printing costs; request for and use by committees of political parties; fe
- 293.442 - Election Fund: Creation; deposit of money in Fund; disposition of interest and income; authority of Secretary of State to disburse, expend and receive money; payment of claims.
- 293.443 - Election expenses.
- 293.445 - Expenses for assistants to county or city clerk.
- 293.446 - Compensation of officer of election board for delivery of election returns to county or city clerk.
- MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- 293.462 - Construction of containers used to transport official ballots.
- 293.463 - Employees may absent themselves from employment to vote: Procedure; penalty.
- 293.464 - Court-ordered extension of deadline for voting.
- 293.465 - Loss or destruction of ballots, or other cause preventing election in precinct or district; new election.
- 293.468 - Secretary of State to provide election materials in usable format for persons who are elderly or disabled.
- 293.4685 - Certain additional duties of Secretary of State; county and city clerks to provide information requested by Secretary of State.
- 293.4687 - Website maintained by Secretary of State for public information relating to elections; requirements.
- 293.4689 - Website maintained by county clerk for public information relating to elections; requirements.
- 293.469 - County clerks encouraged to provide election information and materials in usable format for persons who are elderly or disabled.
- 293.4695 - County clerks required to collect and report certain information concerning election processes; Secretary of State to solicit and collect voter comments regarding election processes; report
- 293.471 - Address of business that receives or distributes mail to be provided to county clerk.
- 293.480 - Limitation on inspection of ballots after return to county or city clerk.
- 293.481 - Governing body of political subdivision, public or quasi-public corporation, or other local agency submitting question to voters required to submit certain documents and information to count
- 293.4815 - Transmission of question to be presented to voters to Secretary of State.
- 293.482 - Advisory questions: Submission to voters by certain governmental entities; prerequisites to placement on ballot; description of anticipated financial effect; appearance on sample ballot; pre
- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS; REGISTRARS
- 293.485 - Qualification of voter: Citizenship, age and residence.
- 293.486 - Determination of address at which voter actually resides.
- 293.487 - When residence not gained or lost.
- 293.490 - Residence not lost upon removal from county or precinct.
- 293.493 - Loss of residence upon removal to another state, territory or foreign country.
- 293.495 - Presumption of intention to abandon residence.
- 293.497 - Residence of head of family.
- 293.500 - Loss of residence upon removal from State with intention to remain elsewhere for indefinite time.
- 293.5002 - Registration of person with fictitious address: Form of application; maintenance of application by Secretary of State and county clerk.
- 293.501 - Use of form provided by Federal Government pursuant to federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
- 293.502 - Registration of certain persons recently discharged from Armed Forces or separated from employment outside of the United States; registration of spouses and dependents of such persons.
- 293.503 - County clerk is ex officio county registrar; custody of documents relating to registration; official records of office of county clerk; maintenance of records; time limitation on program to
- 293.5035 - Designation by county clerk of building owned or leased by county as county facility at which electors may register to vote.
- 293.504 - Voter registration agencies: Creation; duties; duty of Secretary of State to cooperate with Secretary of Defense to allow persons to register at military recruitment offices.
- 293.5045 - Voter registration agencies: Prohibited acts; penalty.
- 293.505 - Appointment, powers and duties of field registrars; prohibited acts of field registrars, clerks, employees of voter registration agencies or persons assisting voters; penalty.
- 293.5055 - Registration of voter outside boundaries of county.
- 293.5057 - Registration of nonresident to vote for office of President and Vice President.
- 293.506 - Registration of voters by computer.
- 293.507 - Forms for application to register to vote and affidavit concerning lack of certain identification; requirements for forms; use of certain numbers to identify voter; regulations.
- 293.508 - Forms for application to register to vote must include option to receive sample ballot in larger type.
- 293.509 - County clerk authorized to provide form for application to register to vote upon request; requirements for request; records to be kept by county clerk in response to request.
- 293.510 - Election board register; registrar of voters’ register.
- 293.511 - Register kept by computer to include all information in original applications to register to vote.
- 293.513 - Elector may register for other elections despite closing of registration for impending election.
- 293.517 - Registration of elector; issuance of voter registration card; objection to application to register to vote by county clerk under certain circumstances.
- 293.518 - Elector to indicate affiliation or nonaffiliation with political party at time of voting; duties of county clerk or field registrar of voters in listing elector’s affiliation or lack thereof
- 293.520 - Registration or reregistration of elector who is unable to sign name.
- 293.523 - Registration of naturalized citizen.
- 293.5235 - Registration of voters by mail; penalty.
- 293.5237 - Registration of person at home by field registrar.
- 293.524 - Registration at time of application for issuance or renewal of driver’s license or identification card; use of forms submitted to Department of Motor Vehicles to correct information in regis
- 293.525 - Vote after residence changed but registration not transferred; affirmation by elector; use of information regarding current address to correct registrar of voters’ register.
- 293.527 - Notice of cancellation of registration when elector moves to another county.
- 293.530 - Correction of statewide voter registration list; authority of county clerk to make investigations; county clerk to cancel registration of voter under certain circumstances; maintenance of re
- 293.5303 - Data concerning change of address of registered voter: Agreement with United States Postal Service or other authorized person for use of data by county clerk.
- 293.5307 - Data concerning change of address of registered voter: Identification of registered voter who has moved; notices to registered voter.
- 293.533 - Action to compel registration.
- 293.535 - Cancellation of registration: Affidavit of person stating elector is not citizen of United States or has abandoned residence in county; notice to registrant.
- 293.537 - Applications to register to vote of electors who have cancelled registration: Preservation; microfilming; destruction; reinstatement if cancelled erroneously.
- 293.540 - Circumstances in which county clerk is required to cancel registration of voter.
- 293.541 - Additional circumstances in which county clerk is required to cancel registration of voter; notice to voter; exception to notice requirement if insufficient time exists before election; voti
- 293.542 - Notification that registered voter has been adjudicated insane or mentally incompetent by district court.
- 293.543 - Reregistration after cancellation of registration.
- 293.547 - Written challenges.
- 293.548 - Withdrawal of written challenge or affidavit.
- 293.550 - Registration of electors enlisted or inducted into Armed Forces of the United States: Appearance before county clerk or field registrar.
- 293.553 - Registration of electors in service of United States or attending school.
- 293.555 - Registration of spouse or dependent of elector who is in service of United States.
- 293.557 - Publication of list of registered voters.
- 293.558 - Disclosure of identification numbers to public; county clerk prohibited from disclosing social security number, driver’s license number or identification card number; registered voter may re
- 293.560 - Close of registration; election; hours office of county clerk to be open during last days before registration closes; publication of day registration closes; offices of county clerk, certain
- 293.563 - Election board register of precinct or district: Preparation; delivery.
- 293.565 - Sample ballots: Contents; mailing; printing of text of constitutional amendments; notice of location of polling place; notice if location of polling place changed; cost of mailing responsibi
- RETURNS AND CANVASS
- 293.3625 - Record made by county clerk of receipt at central counting place of sealed container used to transport official ballots.
- 293.363 - Preparation by counting board to count paper ballots.
- 293.365 - Accounting of all ballots required before count begun.
- 293.367 - Rejection of ballot; regulations for counting ballots.
- 293.3673 - Errors in information on certain form not grounds for rejection of absent ballot.
- 293.3677 - Standards for counting votes; regulations.
- 293.368 - Counting of votes cast for deceased candidate.
- 293.370 - Procedure for completion of tally lists.
- 293.373 - Duties of officers of counting board after ballots counted if paper ballots used.
- 293.383 - Posting of copies of result of votes cast.
- 293.384 - ithdrawal of absent ballots from ballot boxes; verification of proper number of absent ballots; procedure for counting.
- 293.385 - Withdrawal of absent ballots from ballot boxes after initial withdrawal; verification of proper number and counting of absent ballots; reporting results of count; disseminating information a
- 293.387 - Canvass of returns; abstract of votes.
- 293.388 - Abstract of votes: Transmission to public libraries or posting upon website.
- 293.389 - Inclusion of inactive voters in reports of votes prohibited.
- 293.391 - Disposition and inspection of ballots, lists, records and stubs of voted ballots after canvass by county commissioners.
- 293.393 - Preparation of abstracts of votes cast at general election or other statewide election; certificates of election.
- 293.395 - Transmission of copy of certified abstract of votes and mechanized report to Secretary of State; canvass of vote by justices of Supreme Court; Governor to grant certificates of election and
- STATEWIDE VOTER REGISTRATION LIST
- TIES, RECOUNTS AND CONTESTS
- 293.400 - Determination of winner if tie vote; recounts.
- 293.403 - Recount of vote: Demand; advance deposit of costs.
- 293.404 - Employment and duties of recount board; persons present; count of ballots; recounts affecting more than one county.
- 293.405 - Costs of recount; commencement and completion of recount; limitation on additional recount.
- 293.407 - Filing of written statement of contest with clerk of district court; verification.
- 293.410 - Dismissal of statement of contest; grounds for contest.
- 293.413 - Time for filing statement of contest; precedence of election contest; referral to special master.
- 293.415 - Depositions in election contests; trial and submission of matter.
- 293.417 - Judgment of court in election contest.
- 293.420 - Court costs.
- 293.423 - Recount of ballots at hearing of contest.
- 293.425 - Contest of general election for office of State Legislator: Statement of contest and other documents and materials to be filed with Secretary of State; ability of contestant to amend stateme
- 293.427 - Contest of general election for office of State Legislator: Seating of candidate with highest number of votes; withdrawal of statement of contest; hearing and deciding of contest by appropri
- 293.430 - Contest of general election for office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor or justice of Supreme Court: Filing of documents and other evidence with Secretary of State; seating of candidate; dut
- 293.433 - Decision of contest for office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor or justice of Supreme Court by Senate and Assembly in joint session.
- 293.435 - Certificate of election delivered after decision.
- UNLAWFUL ACTS AND PENALTIES
- 293.700 - Bribery of elector.
- 293.710 - Intimidation of voters.
- 293.720 - Suppression of or failure to file nomination paper by public officer.
- 293.730 - Interfering with conduct of election; unauthorized delivery, receipt, identification, display or removal of ballot.
- 293.740 - Soliciting votes and electioneering inside polling place or within certain distance from polling place prohibited; penalty.
- 293.750 - Removal or destruction of election supplies or equipment.
- 293.755 - Tampering or interfering with certain election equipment or computer programs used to count ballots; report of violation to district attorney.
- 293.760 - Alteration, defacement or removal of posted results of votes cast.
- 293.770 - Refusal of person sworn by election board to answer questions.
- 293.780 - Voting more than once at same election.
- 293.790 - Offer to vote by person whose vote has been rejected.
- 293.800 - Acts concerning registration of voters; violations of laws governing elections; crimes by public officers.
- 293.805 - Compensation for registration of voters based upon number of voters or voters of a particular party registered.
- 293.810 - Registration in more than one county at one time.
- 293.820 - Solicitation of contribution for political organization without prior approval or charter.
- 293.830 - Betting on election.
- 293.840 - Civil penalty.
- VOTING IN MAILING PRECINCTS
- 293.343 - Eligibility of certain voters to vote by mail; effect of county clerk designating precinct as mailing precinct; designation of polling place at which voters entitled to vote in mailing preci
- 293.345 - Duty of county clerk to mail official mailing ballots to registered voters; sample ballot for mailing precinct to include notice concerning polling place where voters may vote in person if a
- 293.350 - Enrollment of eligible voter’s name; procedure for mailing of ballot and voting supplies by county clerk.
- 293.353 - Marking and return of mailing ballot by voter; voting in person after receipt of mailing ballot; penalty.
- 293.355 - Duties of county clerk upon receipt of envelope which contains mailing ballot.