Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 29A Elections - Chapter 29A.16 Precinct And Polling Place Determination And Accessibility

• 29A.16.010 Intent -- Duties of county auditors
  The intent of this chapter is to require state and local election officials to designate and use polling places and disability access voting locations in ...
• 29A.16.020 Alternative polling places or procedures
  The secretary of state shall establish procedures to assure that, in any primary or election, any disabled or elderly voter assigned to an inaccessible polling ...
• 29A.16.030 Costs for modifications -- Alternatives -- Election costs
  (1) County auditors shall seek alternative polling places or other low-cost alternatives including, but not limited to, procedural changes and assistance from local disabled groups, ...
• 29A.16.040 Precincts -- Number of voters -- Dividing, altering, or combining -- Creating new precincts
  The county legislative authority of each county in the state hereafter formed shall, at their first session, divide their respective counties into election precincts and ...
• 29A.16.050 Precincts -- Restrictions on precinct boundaries -- Designated by number
  (1) Every voting precinct must be wholly within a single congressional district, a single legislative district, a single district of a county legislative authority, and, ...
• 29A.16.060 Combining or dividing precincts, election boards
  At any special election or primary, the county auditor may combine, unite, or divide precincts and may combine or unite election boards for the purpose ...
• 29A.16.110 Polling place -- May be located outside precinct
  Polling places for the various voting precincts may be located outside the boundaries of the respective precincts, when the officers conducting the primary or election ...
• 29A.16.120 Polling place -- Use of county, municipality, or special district facilities
  The legislative authority of each county, municipality, and special district shall, at the request of the county auditor, make their facilities available for use as ...
• 29A.16.130 Public buildings as polling places
  Each state agency and entity of local government shall permit the use of any of its buildings and the most suitable locations therein as polling ...
• 29A.16.140 Inaccessible polling places -- Auditors' list
  No later than April 1st of each even-numbered year, each county auditor shall submit to the secretary of state a list showing the number of ...
• 29A.16.150 Polling places -- Accessibility required, exceptions
  Each polling place must be accessible unless: (1) The county auditor has determined that it is inaccessible, that no alternative accessible polling place is available, ...
• 29A.16.160 Review by and recommendations of disabled voters
  County auditors shall, as feasible, solicit and use the assistance of disabled voters in reviewing sites and recommending inexpensive remedies to improve accessibility.[2003 c 111 ...
• 29A.16.170 County auditors -- Notice of accessibility
  Each county auditor shall include a notice of the accessibility of polling places in the notice of election published under *RCW 29A.52.310 and 29A.52.350.[2003 c ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009