§ 168.795bPrinting or displaying ballot labels, questions, office titles, and names of

candidates; columns, pages, and directional signs; ballot stub.
 Sec. 795b.
    (1) Ballot labels must be printed or displayed in plain, clear, black type on white surface.
 Questions may be printed or displayed on red tinted surface and the names of candidates for
 nonpartisan offices on blue tinted surface. County questions may be printed or displayed on
 green tinted surface and local questions may be printed or displayed on buff surface. In a
 primary election to identify each political party, the titles of offices and the names of
 candidates may be arranged in vertical columns or in a series of separate pages or displays.
 The office title with a statement of the number of candidates to be voted for must be printed or
 displayed above or at the side of the names of the candidates for that office. The offices and
 candidates must be printed or displayed in the order provided by law, or if no such provision is
 made, in the order prescribed by the board of election commissioners of the county, city,
 village, township, or school district. If there are more candidates for an office than can be
 printed or displayed in 1 column or on 1 page or display, the ballot label must be clearly
 marked that the list of candidates is continued on the following column, page, or display, and
 so far as possible, the same number of names must be printed or displayed on each column,
 page, or display. Arrows or other directional signs may be used to indicate the place to vote for
 each candidate or question.
    (2) Except for ballots used at an early voting site that are produced by an on-demand ballot
 printing system, absent voter ballots issued to individuals who register to vote or who update a
 voter registration at a clerk's office on election day as provided under section 761(7) that are
 produced by an on-demand ballot printing system, ballots issued to individuals who register to


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 vote or who update a voter registration at an election day vote center as provided under section
 523b that are produced by an on-demand ballot printing system, and ballots that are translated
 to a language other than English that are produced by an on-demand ballot printing system,
 ballots that are processed through electronic tabulating equipment after the elector has voted
 must have an attached, numbered, perforated stub.