§ 1216Instructions of Voters and Manner of Voting in Districts in Which Voting Machines are Used

(a) In districts in which voting machines are used, the
election officers shall, with the aid of the diagrams authorized
by this act and the mechanically operated model, instruct each
elector before he enters the voting machine booth regarding the
operation of the machine, and shall give the elector opportunity
personally to operate the model. In election districts using
full-scale models listing the actual ballot labels for the
primary or election as the case may be, any elector who desires
a demonstration on such full-size scale model shall have the
right to select any registered elector who is legally entitled
to be inside the polling place under the provisions of this act
to give such elector a demonstration. ((a) amended Nov. 21,
1969, P.L.309, No.132)
   (b) If any voter, after entering the voting machine booth
and before the closing of such booth, shall ask for further
instructions concerning the manner of voting, any one of the
election officers may give him such instructions, but no person
giving a voter such instructions shall in any manner request,
suggest or seek to persuade or induce any such elector to vote
any particular ticket or for any particular candidate or for
or against any particular question. After giving such
instructions, and before the elector closes the booth or votes,
the election officer shall retire, and the elector shall
forthwith vote.
   (c) At primaries, before a voter is admitted to the voting
machine, it shall be adjusted by the election officer in charge
thereof, so that such voter will only be able to vote for the
candidates of the party in which he is registered and enrolled
and for candidates for nonpartisan nomination, if any.
   (d) At all elections, the elector shall vote for each
candidate individually by operating the key, handle, pointer
or knob, upon or adjacent to which the name of such candidate
is placed. In the case of a question submitted to the vote of
the electors, the elector shall operate the key, handle, pointer
or knob corresponding to the answer which he desires to give.
((d) amended Oct. 31, 2019, P.L.552, No.77)
   (e) A voter may, at any primary or election, vote for any
person for any office, for which office his name does not appear
upon the voting machine as a candidate, by an irregular ballot
containing the name of such person deposited, written or affixed
in or upon the appropriate receptacle or device provided in or
on the machine for that purpose, and in no other manner. Where
two or more persons are to be elected to the same office, and
the name of each candidate is placed upon or adjacent to a
separate key, handle, pointer or knob, and the voting machine
requires that all irregular ballots voted for that office be
deposited, written or affixed in or upon a single receptacle
or device, an elector may vote in or by such receptacle or
device for one or more persons whose names do not appear upon
the machine, with or without the names of one or more persons
whose names do so appear. With these exceptions no irregular
ballot shall be cast on a voting machine for any person for any
office, whose name appears on the machine as a candidate for
that office, and any ballot so cast shall be void and not
counted.
   (f) At any general election at which presidential electors
are to be chosen, each elector shall be permitted to vote by
one operation for all the presidential electors of a political
party or political body. For each party or body nominating
presidential electors, a ballot label shall be provided

containing only the words "Presidential Electors," preceded by
the names of the party or body and followed by the names of the
candidates thereof for the office of President and
Vice-President, and the corresponding counter or registering
device shall register votes cast for said electors when thus
voted for collectively. If an elector desires to vote a ticket
for presidential electors made up of the names of persons
nominated by different parties or bodies, or partially of names
of persons so in nomination and partially of names of persons
not in nomination by any party or body, or wholly of names of
persons not in nomination by any party or body, he may write
or deposit a paper ballot prepared by himself in the receptacle
provided in or on the machine for the purpose. The machine shall
be so constructed that it will not be possible for any one voter
to vote a straight party ticket for presidential electors and
at the same time to deposit a ballot for presidential electors
in a receptacle as provided in this section. When the votes for
presidential electors are counted, the votes appearing upon the
counter or registering device corresponding to the ballot label
containing the names of the candidates for President and
Vice-President of any party or body shall be counted as votes
for each of the candidates for presidential elector of such
party or body, and thereupon all candidates for presidential
elector shall be credited, in addition, with the votes cast for
them upon the ballots deposited in the machine, as provided in
this section. ((f) amended Oct. 31, 2019, P.L.552, No.77)
   (g) As soon as the elector has adjusted the voting machine
so that it will record his choice for the various candidates
to be voted for, and his answers to the various questions
submitted, he shall operate the recording mechanism, and
forthwith leave the voting machine booth.