2006 Kansas Code - 25-1331

      25-1331.   Injured machine; substitution or repair; use of unofficial ballots, when. In case any voting machine used in any election district shall, during the time the polls are open, become injured so as to render it inoperative in whole or in part, the supervising judge shall give immediate notice thereof to the county election officer, and such officer shall, if possible, substitute a machine in good order for the injured machine and at the close of the polls the record of both machines shall be taken and the votes shown on their counters shall be added together in ascertaining the results of the election. In order to accommodate voters at the polls who cannot wait while a substitute machine is being procured or the injured machine repaired or if no other machine is available to replace the injured one for use at that time at such election, ballots made as nearly as possible in the form of the official ballots shall be used, received by the election board, placed in a receptacle in such case to be provided by the county election officer and counted with the votes registered on the voting machine. The result shall be declared as though there had been no accident to the voting machine. The ballots thus voted shall be preserved and returned with the statement of canvass with a certificate setting forth how and why they were voted.

      History:   L. 1957, ch. 233, § 25; L. 1968, ch. 406, § 126; L. 1977, ch. 136, § 1; July 1.