§ UCA § 20A-6-101General requirements for manual ballots

Effective 5/12/2020

20A-6-101. 
General requirements for manual ballots.




(1)

An election officer shall ensure that manual ballots:



(a)

are printed using precisely the same quality and tint of plain white paper through which the printing or writing cannot be seen;





(b)

are printed using precisely the same quality and kind of type;





(c)

are printed using precisely the same quality and tint of plain black ink;





(d)

are uniform in size for all the voting precincts within the election officer's jurisdiction; and





(e)

include, on a ticket for a race in which a voter is authorized to cast a write-in vote and in which a write-in candidate is qualified under Section 20A-9-601, a space for a write-in candidate immediately following the last candidate listed on that ticket.








(2)

Whenever the vote for candidates is to be limited to the voters of a particular political division, the election officer shall ensure that the names of those candidates are printed only upon those ballots provided to that political division.



Amended by Chapter 31, 2020 General Session