2006 Indiana Code - CHAPTER 2. COUNTING OF PAPER BALLOT VOTES

IC 3-12-2
     Chapter 2. Counting of Paper Ballot Votes

IC 3-12-2-1
Chapter establishes standards to define vote; ballot counting procedures
     Sec. 1. (a) This chapter:
        (1) is enacted to comply with 42 U.S.C. 15481 by establishing uniform and nondiscriminatory standards to define what will be counted as a vote on a paper ballot; and
        (2) applies to each precinct where voting is by paper ballot.
    (b) After the polls have closed, each precinct election board shall count the paper ballot votes for each candidate for each office and on each public question. The ballots shall be counted by laying each ballot upon a table in the order in which it is taken from the ballot box.
    (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), the precinct election board may count absentee ballots before the polls have closed. If the precinct election board counts absentee ballots under this subsection, a member of the precinct election board may not, before the polls have closed, provide any person other than a member of the precinct election board with information concerning the number of votes:
        (1) a candidate received for an office; or
        (2) cast to approve or reject a public question;
on absentee ballots counted under this subsection.
    (d) If a precinct election board administers more than one (1) precinct, the board shall keep the ballots cast in each precinct separate from ballots cast in any other precinct, so that the votes cast for each candidate and on each public question in each of the precincts administered by the board may be determined.
As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.3-1987, SEC.339; P.L.10-1988, SEC.123; P.L.3-1995, SEC.119; P.L.209-2003, SEC.181; P.L.230-2005, SEC.56.