Sec. 793.
The proper board of election commissioners shall furnish the necessary inspectors' statement of returns sheets and the certificates and envelopes suitable to the machine used, together with ballot labels and other election supplies for each election, to be delivered to the respective boards of election inspectors to make returns where voting machines are to be used. The form of the inspectors' statement of returns sheets shall be suitable to the type of machine used and the inspectors' certificate contained therein shall in addition certify to the machine number, the number on the protective counter, if any, the number on the seal, and that all candidate counters, question counters and the public counter registered zero before the polls opened; also the record on the protective counter and on the seal, if any, with which the machine is sealed by the inspectors, the number on the public counter and the number of names on the poll list after the polls close; also a record of the disposition of the absent voters' ballots as provided in section 791 of this act. As soon as the names of all candidates for the several offices to be elected at that election are filed as required by law, the board or official whose duty it is to prepare the ballot labels for the machine, shall forthwith have the names of each regularly nominated candidate, together with the designating number and letter, if any, corresponding to each of the candidate's counter on the voting machine, printed in the space provided therefor: Provided, That in case of the death, resignation or failure to qualify of any of such candidates after such inspectors' statement of returns are printed, a slip may be furnished giving the name, designating number and letter, if any, of the candidate substituted therefor and same shall be pasted, before the delivery of the inspectors' statement of returns to the board of inspectors, over the candidate's name who died, resigned or failed to qualify.
History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Popular Name: Election Code
Last modified: October 10, 2016