• § 21-2-430 - Opening of Ballot Boxes; Destruction of Irrelevant Materials; Locking of Ballot Box; Public Breaking of Seals; Instruction Cards and Notices of Penalties
  In precincts in which ballots are used, the poll officers shall, after taking the oath, publicly open the ballot boxes which have been furnished...
• § 21-2-431 - Execution of Voter's Certificate; Procedure Upon Qualification of Elector; Elector Unable to Sign Name; Voting Outside Precinct of Residence; Registration As Prerequisite to Voting
  (a) At every primary and election, each elector who desires to vote shall first execute a voter's certificate and hand the same to the...
• § 21-2-432 - Voter's Certificate Binder As Constituting Official List of Electors; Separate Preservation and Disposition of Refused Applications
  After each elector has been admitted to vote, his or her voter's certificate shall be inserted in the binder provided therefor by the registrars,...
• § 21-2-433 - Admission of Electors to Enclosed Space; Detachment of Ballots From Stubs and Distribution of Ballots to Electors; Return of Canceled Ballots to Superintendent
  (a) No elector shall enter the enclosed space behind the guardrail provided for in subsection (a) of Code Section 21-2-267 until he or she...
• § 21-2-434 - Restrictions As to Removal of Ballots From Book or Polling Place; Deposit of Official Ballots in Box; Disposition of Unofficial Ballots
  No official ballot shall be taken or detached from its stub in any book of ballots, except by a poll officer when a person...
• § 21-2-435 - Procedure As to Marking and Depositing of Ballots
  (a) In precincts in which ballots are used, the elector, after receiving his or her ballot, shall retire to one of the voting compartments...
• § 21-2-436 - Duties of Poll Officers After the Close of the Polls
  After the polls are closed and the last elector has voted in precincts in which ballots are used, at least two poll officers shall...
• § 21-2-437 - Procedure As to Count and Return of Votes Generally; Void Ballots
  (a) After the polls close and as soon as all the ballots have been properly accounted for and those outside the ballot box as...
• § 21-2-438 - Ballots Identifying Voter, Not Marked, or Improperly Marked Declared Void
  (a) Any ballot marked so as to identify the voter shall be void and not counted, except a ballot cast by a challenged elector...
• § 21-2-439 - Decisions Concerning Questionable Marks or Defaced or Mutilated Ballots
  Decisions concerning questionable marks on ballots or defacing or mutilation of ballots and the count to be recorded thereon shall be made by the...
• § 21-2-440 - Duty of Poll Officers to Sign General Returns; Posting of Copy of Returns; Delivery of Copy of Materials to Superintendent
  (a) Immediately after the vote has been counted in precincts in which paper ballots are used, all of the general returns shall be signed...

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