§ 3-12-3-2 — Counted ballot cards; processing

Indiana § 3-12-3-2

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 12: ASCERTAINING RESULTS OF ELECTIONS
• Ch. 3: Counting Ballot Card Votes

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(a) After the ballot cards have been counted
under section 1 of this chapter, the precinct election board shall comply
with this section.
(b) This subsection applies if the votes have been cast on a ballot
card voting system that is not designed to allow the counting and
tabulation of votes by the precinct election board. The inspector shall
place all cards that have been cast in the container provided for that
purpose and the container shall be sealed by the inspector in the
presence of the precinct election board. The inspector and the judge of
the opposite political party shall immediately deliver the container,
together with the unused, uncounted, and defective cards and returns,
to the central counting location or other designated place.
(c) This subsection applies if the votes have been cast on a ballot
card voting system that is designed to allow the counting and tabulation
of votes by the precinct election board. The precinct election board
shall:
(1) process the ballot cards with the automatic tabulating machine
provided to the precinct, if the vote is not automatically registered
by the ballot card voting system;
(2) take the vote as tabulated under subdivision (1) or as
automatically registered by the ballot card voting system; and
(3) certify the totals and the ballot count as required under section
1 of this chapter on forms supplied to the precinct for that
purpose.
Copies of the totals shall be delivered to each member of the precinct
election board. One (1) copy of the vote totals shall be prepared and
signed for the news media on the form furnished by the county election
board.
[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-2-4-5(b).]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.6-1986, SEC.40; P.L.3-1987, SEC.349; P.L.1-1993, SEC.10.