§ 1225Signing and Disposition of Returns, District Register and Voting Check List; Posting; Return of Ballot Boxes

(a) Immediately after the vote has been counted in
districts in which paper ballots are used, all of the general
returns shall be signed by the election officers and clerks,
and certified by the overseers, if any. If any election officer,
clerk or overseer shall refuse to sign or certify the general
returns, he shall write his reasons therefor upon the general
return sheets. One of said returns shall be immediately posted
for the information of the public outside the polling place,
and one shall be entrusted to the judge for delivery to the
county board with the package of unused ballots, etc., in an
envelope provided for that purpose. The election officers shall
then replace all the ballots cast, so counted and canvassed,
in the ballot boxes, including those declared void, spoiled,
and cancelled, together with one set of tally papers, one
numbered list of voters, sealed as aforesaid, and one oath of
each election officer, and lock and seal each ballot box so
that nothing can be inserted therein until it be opened again;
and the judge and minority inspector shall immediately deliver
the ballot boxes to the custody of the county board, and the

county board shall not compute any returns from any election
district until the ballot boxes therefor, as well as the package
of unused ballots, etc., aforesaid therefrom, are delivered,
as aforesaid. The election officers shall record the number of
votes cast for each person on an official specimen ballot, shall
sign the same and immediately post it outside the polling place
for the information of the public.
   (b) The minority inspector shall retain one complete set
of tally papers, one numbered list of voters, sealed as
aforesaid, and one set of oaths of election officers and
carefully preserve the same for a period of at least one year.
The remaining tally papers, affidavits of voters and others,
including oaths of election officers, and one general return
sheet shall be placed in separate envelopes, to be provided for
that purpose, and sealed as soon as the count is finally
completed. All of such envelopes and one numbered list of
voters, previously sealed as aforesaid, shall be entrusted to
the judge of election to be immediately delivered to the county
board. The judge of elections shall return to the county board
by two o'clock A. M. on the day following the election
envelopes; supplies, including all uncast provisional ballots;
and returns, including all provisional ballots and absentee
ballots cast in the election district.
   (c) Immediately upon completion of the count and tabulation
of the votes cast, the district register and the voting check
list shall be locked and sealed, and returned forthwith by the
judge of election to the custody of the proper registration
commission.
   (1225 amended Oct. 8, 2004, P.L.807, No.97)