§ 530Equipment and Arrangement of Polling Places; Guard Rail; Number of Voting Compartments or Voting Machines

(a) The county board of elections shall cause all rooms
used as polling places to be suitably provided with heat and
light, and, in districts in which ballots are used, with a
sufficient number of voting compartments or booths with proper
supplies, in which electors may conveniently mark their ballots,
with a curtain, screen or door in the upper part of the front
of each compartment or booth so that in the marking thereof
they may be screened from the observation of others. Every
polling place shall consist of a single room, every part of
which is within the unobstructed view of those present therein,
and shall be furnished with a guard rail or barrier enclosing
the inner portion of the said room, which guard rail or barrier
shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as
are inside said rail or barrier can approach within six feet
of the ballot box and voting compartments, or booths, or voting
machines, as the case may be. The ballot box and voting
compartments or booths shall be so arranged in the voting room
within the enclosed space as to be in full view of those persons

in the room outside the said guard rail or barrier. The voting
machine or machines shall be so placed in the voting room within
the enclosed space that, unless its construction shall otherwise
require, the ballot labels on the face of the machine can be
plainly seen by the election officers, overseers and watchers
when the machine is not occupied by an elector.
   (b) The number of voting compartments to be furnished to
each polling place shall not be less than one for every two
hundred (200) registered qualified electors, or fraction
thereof, in the election district. The number of voting machines
to be furnished to polling places in which voting machines are
used shall be not more than one machine for each three hundred
and fifty (350) registered electors, or fraction thereof, nor
less than one machine for each six hundred (600) registered
electors, or fraction thereof, in such election district:
Provided, however, That the court of common pleas having
jurisdiction, upon petition presented by either the county
election board or by ten (10) or more registered qualified
electors of an election district, may order that additional
voting machines or voting compartments be provided for any such
election district if the court shall be of the opinion that
such additional voting machines or voting compartments shall
be necessary in such district for the convenience of the
electors and the public interests. The county shall provide
equal distribution of voting machines or voting compartments
in election districts containing a similar number of electors.
((b) amended Feb. 13, 1998, P.L.72, No.18)
   (c) The county board may make such arrangements as it deems
proper for the storage of election equipment in the various
election districts of the county at such times of the year that
it will not be used for election purposes, and may fix
reasonable compensation therefor.