(1)(a) The
designated election official of each local government using paper ballots shall
provide printed ballots for the local government election. The official ballots shall
be printed and in the possession of the designated election official at least thirty
days before the election.
(b)In addition to the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subsection (1),
sample ballots must be printed in the form of the official ballots and are subject to
public inspection. The sample ballots must be printed upon paper of a different
color from the official ballots. Sample ballots must be delivered to the election
judges and posted with the instruction cards provided under section 1-13.5-906.
(2)Every ballot must contain the names of all duly nominated candidates for
the offices to be
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(1) (a) The
designated election official of each local government using paper ballots shall
provide printed ballots for the local government election. The official ballots shall
be printed and in the possession of the designated election official at least thirty
days before the election.
(b) In addition to the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subsection (1),
sample ballots must be printed in the form of the official ballots and are subject to
public inspection. The sample ballots must be printed upon paper of a different
color from the official ballots. Sample ballots must be delivered to the election
judges and posted with the instruction cards provided under section 1-13.5-906.
(2) Every ballot must contain the names of all duly nominated candidates for
the offices to be voted for at that election, except those who have died or
withdrawn, and the ballot must contain no other names. The names of the
candidates for each office must be printed on the ballot without political party
designation and without any title or degree designating the business or profession
of the candidate. The names must be arranged by lot by the designated election
official at any time prior to the certification of the ballot. The designated election
official shall notify the candidates of the time and place of the lot drawing.
(3) The ballots must be printed so as to give to each eligible elector a clear
opportunity to designate his or her choice of candidates, ballot issues, and ballot
questions by a mark as instructed. Words may be printed on the ballot that will aid
the elector, such as vote for not more than one.
(4) At the end of the list of candidates for each different office, there must
be one or more blank spaces in which the elector may write the name of any eligible
person not printed on the ballot who has filed an affidavit of intent to be a write-in
candidate pursuant to section 1-13.5-305. The number of spaces provided shall be
the lesser of the number of eligible electors who have properly filed an affidavit of
intent to be a write-in candidate or the number of persons to be elected to the
office. No such blank spaces shall be provided if no eligible person properly filed an
affidavit of intent to be a write-in candidate.
(5) The names of the candidates for each office must be arranged under the
designation of the office. The designated election official shall not print, in
connection with any name, any title or degree designating the business or
profession of the candidate. Each candidate's name may include one nickname if
the candidate regularly uses the nickname and the nickname does not include any
part of a political party name.
(6) If no candidate is duly nominated and no person properly files an affidavit
of intent to be a write-in candidate for an office, the following text must appear
under the designation of the office: There are no candidates for this office.
(7) (a) Whenever the approval of a ballot issue or ballot question is submitted
to the vote of the people, the ballot issue or question must be printed on the ballot
following the lists of candidates. Ballot issues and ballot questions must be listed in
the following order, as applicable: Issues to increase taxes, issues to increase debt,
citizen petitions, and other referred measures.
(b) The ballot issue or question must be identified by the name of the local
government submitting the ballot issue or question followed by a letter.
(8) (a) The extreme top part of each ballot must be divided by two perforated
or dotted lines into two spaces, each of which must be not less than one inch in
width, the top portion being known as the stub and the next portion as the duplicate
stub. Upon each of said stubs nothing is to be printed except the number of the
ballot, and the same number must be printed on both stubs. Stubs and duplicate
stubs of ballots must both be numbered consecutively. There must be printed on
the stub of an absentee ballot Absentee Ballot Number [...], and such stubs must
be numbered consecutively beginning with number one. All ballots must be uniform
and of sufficient length and width to allow for the names of candidates and the
proposed questions to be printed in clear, plain type with a space of at least one-half inch between the different columns on said ballot. On each ballot must be
printed the endorsement official ballot for . . ., and after the word for must
follow the designation of the local government for which the ballot is prepared, the
date of the election, and a facsimile of the signature of the designated election
official. The ballot shall not contain any caption or other endorsement or number.
Each designated election official shall use precisely the same quality and tint of
paper, the same kind of type, and the same quality and tint of plain black ink for all
ballots furnished by the designated election official at one election.
(b) A duplicate stub is not required for a ballot that is prepared for an
independent mail ballot election pursuant to part 11 of this article.