§ 1230Removal and Storage of Voting Machines

As
soon as possible after the completion of the count in districts
in which voting machines are used, the county board shall have
the voting machines properly boxed, and removed to the place
of storage provided for in this act. The voting machines shall
remain locked against voting for the period of twenty days next
following each primary and election, and as much longer as may
be necessary or advisable because of any existing or threatened
contest over the result of the primary or election, with due
regard for the date of the next following election or primary,
except that they may be opened and all the data and figures
therein examined under the provisions of this act, by order of
any court of competent jurisdiction, or judge thereof, or by
direction of any legislative committee to investigate and report
upon contested primaries or elections affected by the use of
such machines, and such data and such figures shall be examined
by such committee in the presence of the officer having the
custody of such machines.