16-452. Rules; instructions and procedures manual; approval of manual; field check and review of systems; violation; classification

1. After consultation with each county board of supervisors or other officer in charge of elections, the secretary of state shall prescribe rules to achieve and maintain the maximum degree of correctness, impartiality, uniformity and efficiency on the procedures for early voting and voting, and of producing, distributing, collecting, counting, tabulating and storing ballots.

2. Such rules shall be prescribed in an official instructions and procedures manual to be issued not later than thirty days prior to each election. Prior to its issuance, the manual shall be approved by the governor and the attorney general. The secretary of state shall submit the manual to the governor and the attorney general not fewer than ninety days before each election.

3. A person who violates any rule adopted pursuant to this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

4. The secretary of state shall provide personnel who are expert in electronic voting systems and procedures and in electronic voting system security to field check and review electronic voting systems and recommend needed statutory and procedural changes.

WARNING - The above text was curent June 2003, but may be outdated now.