2006 Kansas Code - 25-1314

      25-1314.   Election for use of voting machines; petition therefor; use at all elections. The board of county commissioners of any county may submit a proposition for the use of voting machines at any countywide general election or at a special countywide election called for the purpose, and if a majority of the votes cast on the proposition shall be in favor thereof the board of county commissioners shall provide voting machines to be used at all voting places at all national, state, county, township, city and school primary and general elections and in question submitted elections.

      When the board of county commissioners of any county shall be presented with a petition requesting a vote on the proposition of using voting machines in such county, signed by electors equal in number to not less than ten percent (10%) of the votes cast for secretary of state in the county at the last preceding general election, said board of county commissioners shall submit the proposition at the next succeeding state primary or general election. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition shall be in favor thereof the board of county commissioners shall provide voting machines to be used for the same purpose as when the election is initiated by the board of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners of any county in which an election is or has been held in which election a majority of the qualified electors of any such county adopted a proposition to rent or purchase voting machines, may issue bonds, without an election, to finance and pay for such purchase or rental.

      History:   L. 1957, ch. 233, § 8; L. 1967, ch. 209, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 210, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 406, § 119; April 30.