§ 17-11-1. Division of towns and representative district into voting districts. The local board of any city or town may, on or before the sixtieth (60th) day preceding any election, divide or redivide the city or town, or any representative district in the city or town, into voting districts. The local board of each city […]
§ 17-11-1.1. Combination of voting districts for special election. (a) The board of canvassers of any city or town at which there shall be submitted to the voters a question or questions for their approval or rejection or at which officials will be elected, shall have the authority to combine two (2) or more voting […]
§ 17-11-10. Filling of vacancies by town council. In case of the death, resignation, or permanent disability of the moderator of any town, or of the moderator or clerk of any senatorial or representative district, except in the cities of Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Warwick, Cranston, Woonsocket, and Newport, or of any voting district in […]
§ 17-11-11. Selection of wardens and clerks in cities. At least thirty-five (35) days before any election, the local board in each city shall appoint for each polling place within the city where an election is to be held a warden and clerk, not from the same political party. The appointments shall be made from […]
§ 17-11-12. Qualifications of election officials — Vacancies. Election officials shall, whenever possible, be qualified electors in the city, town, senatorial or representative district, or voting district in which they are appointed to serve, and shall severally be able to read the Constitution of the state in the English language and to write their names. […]
§ 17-11-12.1. High school election officials. (a) Notwithstanding any other general law to the contrary, and in order to provide for a greater awareness of the elections process, the rights and responsibilities of voters and the importance of participating in the electoral process, as well as to provide additional workers, an elections official may appoint […]
§ 17-11-13. Appointment and compensation of supervisors. (a) The local board of each city and town, at least thirty-five (35) days before each election, shall appoint two (2) pairs of supervisors for each polling place, each pair of which shall not be comprised of two (2) persons from the same political party. Supervisors shall, if […]
§ 17-11-14. Supervision of all elections on same day. Whenever any city or town elections occur on the same day as an election for national or state officers in any city or town, the supervisors appointed pursuant to § 17-11-13 shall be the supervisors for all of the elections. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 11, […]
§ 17-11-15. Persons ineligible to serve as election officials. No person shall be appointed or serve as an election official who has been convicted, found guilty, pleaded guilty or nolo contendere, or placed on a deferred or suspended sentence, or on probation, for any crime which involves moral turpitude or which constitutes a violation of […]
§ 17-11-16. Supervision of adjourned elections. In the event that a second, adjourned, or subsequent election is held in accordance with the provisions of this title, the same supervisors of election who acted at the first election shall act at the second or adjourned or other subsequent election, and shall have and exercise the same […]
§ 17-11-17. Telephone — Polling place. If there is a telephone within a polling place, then the owner of the building in which the polling place is located shall allow use of the telephone for official business by the warden, clerk, and state inspector during the period beginning one hour before the opening of the […]
§ 17-11-2. Notice of division or redivision of districts. The local boards, upon the dividing or redividing of a senatorial or representative district, shall give public notice of what senatorial or representative districts have been divided or redivided into voting districts by publication in some newspaper having a general circulation in the city or town, […]
§ 17-11-3 — 17-11-5. Repealed. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 38, §§ 3, 5; G.L. 1909, ch. 48, §§ 3, 5; P.L. 1910, ch. 640, §§ 35, 36; P.L. 1911, ch. 677, § 1; P.L. 1914, ch. 1038, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 49, §§ 3, 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 331, §§ 3, 4; P.L. […]
§ 17-11-6. Appointment of district moderators and clerks in cities or towns. (a) All district clerks and district moderators in each of Rhode Island’s towns shall be appointed by the local canvassing authority of each municipality at least thirty-five (35) days before any election or district or town meeting. The appointment of the district clerks […]
§ 17-11-7. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1900, ch. 798, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 48, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 48, § 3; P.L. 1910, ch. 640, § 35; P.L. 1911, ch. 677, § 1; P.L. 1914, ch. 1038, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 49, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 331, § 3; P.L. 1941, […]
§ 17-11-7.1. Pool of election officials. Notwithstanding any other general law to the contrary, local boards are authorized to create a pool of election officials who shall be available to fill vacancies wherever needed. These election officials shall have the same training and duties as regular election officials, but shall not be restricted to being […]
§ 17-11-7.2. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1990, ch. 451, § 1; P.L. 2004, ch. 278, § 1; P.L. 2004, ch. 480, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2009, ch. 225, § 1, effective November 9, 2009.
§ 17-11-8. Qualifications of moderators and clerks — Vacancies. The moderators and clerks shall each be able to read the Constitution of the state in the English language, and to write their names. Every person appointed as a moderator or clerk shall immediately be notified of his or her appointment and shall, within five (5) […]
§ 17-11-9. Election of moderator or clerk pro tempore. (a) In case of the absence of the moderator or of the clerk of any town meeting, of a town not divided into voting districts, the town meeting may elect a moderator or clerk pro tempore, and the town clerk shall preside at the election of […]
