Section 15272.
15272. The count shall be public and shall be continued without adjournment until completed and the result is declared. During the reading and tallying, the ballot read and the tally sheet kept shall be within the clear view of watchers. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1073, Sec. 27. Effective January 1, 1999.)
Section 15206.
15206. The elections official or any deputy authorized by the elections official may excuse or dismiss any person from any counting board and enforce the order. (Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1073, Sec. 27. Effective January 1, 1999.)
Section 15273.
15273. Unless otherwise provided in this code, the precinct board members may not constitute themselves into separate squads in an attempt to conduct more than one count of the ballots at the same time. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1073, Sec. 27. Effective January 1, 1999.)
Section 15207.
15207. The elections official or authorized deputy shall segregate the persons employed to count the ballots into counting boards. These counting boards shall be deemed to be precinct boards, and are subject to all laws governing precinct boards where ballots are counted at the polling place. (Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1073, Sec. 27. Effective […]
Section 15208.
15208. (a) Each container of ballots shall be opened and its contents removed. The ballots shall be checked to ascertain if the ballots are properly grouped and shall be arranged, if necessary, so that all similar ballots from the precinct are together. (b) Any ballot that contains personal information, as defined in Section 14287, or is torn, […]
Section 15209.
15209. Any magnetic or electronic storage medium used for the ballot tabulation program and any magnetic or electronic storage medium containing election results shall be kept in a secure location and shall be retained for six months following any local election and 22 months following any federal election or so long thereafter as any contest […]
Section 15210.
15210. In preparing the voted ballots for processing, any ballot that is torn, bent, or otherwise defective shall be corrected so that every vote cast by the voter shall be counted by the automatic tabulating equipment. If necessary, a true duplicate copy of the defective ballot shall be made and substituted therefor, following the intention […]
Section 15211.
15211. If paper ballots are used for vote by mail voting, the canvass may be conducted in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 15000), or the elections official may have a true duplicate copy of vote by mail voter paper ballots made on punchcard ballots that shall be verified in the presence of witnesses. […]
Section 15212.
15212. If voting at all precincts within a county is not conducted using the same voting system, the result as to the precincts not subject to this article shall be determined in accordance with other provisions of this code and the result of the vote at precincts subject to this article shall be determined as […]
Section 15213.
15213. In case of an emergency in which it becomes impossible to transport the ballots from the precinct to a central counting place, the elections official may direct that the ballots be counted at the precinct. In those cases, counting shall be conducted substantially in accordance with Article 5 (commencing with Section 15270). (Added by […]