48-3041. Adoption of acreage system of voting A. Instead of the personal and individual system of district voting as provided by article 4 of this chapter, the bona fide landowners of a district who reside in the state may petition the board of directors of the district to adopt an acreage system of voting within […]
48-3042. Forms of election materials; applicability of general election laws A. The board of directors shall prescribe the form of registration lists, ballots, poll lists, election returns and all other papers and documents used in connection with the holding of elections, and shall provide for preserving the secrecy of the ballot. The provisions and forms […]
48-3043. Qualifications of electors A. In the acreage system of voting every bona fide owner of land within the district holding title or evidence of title of record, including entrymen upon public lands under the public land laws of the United States or a certificate of purchase from the state, who has held such title […]
48-3044. Election register When voting is conducted under the acreage system, at least five days before holding a regular or special election the secretary of the district shall make up an election register. The election register shall denote the names of the holders of lands within the district, the number of acres held by each […]
48-3045. Handling and distribution of ballots Ballots shall at all times be under the supervision and direction of the election judges who shall: 1. Keep the ballots not voted within the polling place and within plain view of the election judges and of the public. 2. Deliver them only to qualified voters within the place […]
48-3046. Marking and checking of ballots A. Every qualified voter before receiving an official ballot shall call out his name to the election clerk. If his name is found on the election register the clerk shall hand him a blank official ballot, first inserting in a space provided for that purpose the number of votes […]
48-3047. Mistake in marking ballot A. If when the inspector announces the name of the voter tendering him a ballot and the number of votes to which he is entitled as indicated on the ballot, it is found that the number of votes does not correspond with the number of votes to which the voter […]
48-3048. Manner of marking ballot; determining right to vote A. The voter shall indicate the candidate for whom he votes or the question or proposal for or against which he votes by writing in the space to the right of the name of the candidate, question or proposal the number of votes he casts. B. […]
48-3049. Absent voters or voters with disabilities An elector absent from the county in which the district is located, or who expects to be absent therefrom at the time of holding an election in the district, or who furnishes the secretary of the board with a doctor’s certificate of physical inability to attend the polls, […]
48-3050. Determination of election result A majority of the acreage as represented by the votes cast at an election conducted under the acreage system shall determine the result.
48-3051. Conveyance of property for voting purposes; voting by corporation A. Acreage shall be voted only by the owner of the recorded title thereto, and a conveyance of acreage made within thirty days previous to any election for the primary purpose of enabling the grantee to vote the acreage shall be of no force or […]
