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§ 517. Ballot boxes

The Supervisor of Elections shall furnish to each board of elections one ballot box for each polling place in its district, to contain the ballots voted. The ballot boxes shall be of sufficient size to contain all the votes and shall be so constructed that no ballots can be taken out of any box without […]

§ 516. Receipts for ballots

Each board of elections shall, on delivery to it of the packages referred to in section 515 of this title, return a receipt therefor, signed by the chairman or vice-chairman of the board, to the Supervisor of Elections or his deputy.

§ 503. Facsimile and sample

The Supervisor of Elections shall provide facsimile and sample ballots which shall be arranged in the form of a diagram showing such part of the face of the electronic voting machine as shall be in use at that election under the direction of the District Board. Such facsimile and sample ballots shall be either in […]

§ 506. Testing of tabulating equipment

(a) On any day not more than 10 days prior to the election day, the Supervisor of Elections shall have the electronic voting machines tested to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be […]

§ 507. Examination of equipment during voting

A member of the board of elections, or a designee of the board of elections, shall occasionally examine the face of the electronic voting machine and the ballot information to determine that the machine and the ballot information have not been tampered with or damaged.

§ 508. Election contests

Except as herein provided, certification and election contests shall be conducted as otherwise provided in chapter 23 of this title. Automatic tabulating equipment shall be tested prior to the recount of election contests, as provided in section 506 of this subchapter and then the official ballots or ballot cards shall be recertified on the equipment. […]

§ 511. Candidates with similar surnames; printing occupation

If two or more candidates for the same office shall have the same or similar surnames, the Supervisor of Elections shall, upon the request of any such candidate filed in writing not later than five days after the last day for filing nomination petitions, certificates or papers, print, opposite his name on the ballot, the […]

§ 512. Names of substituted candidates to be printed

As soon as any substituted candidate shall have been duly nominated, at any time prior to the day on which the printing of ballots is started, his name shall be substituted in place of that of the candidate who has died or withdrawn.

§ 513. Responsibility for accurate printing and safekeeping

The Supervisor of Elections shall cause all the ballots to be used at a primary or election to be accurately printed in clear type, and he and the boards of elections, as the case may be, shall be responsible for the safekeeping of the ballots while in his or their possession or in the possession […]