2006 Kansas Code - 25-4403

      25-4403.   Same; county commission and election officer may authorize; petition and election, when; issuance of bonds; abandonment of system; temporary or permanent abandonment imposed, when. (a) The board of county commissioners and the county election officer of any county may provide an electronic or electromechanical voting system to be used at voting places in the county at national, state, county, township, city and school primary and general elections and in question submitted elections.

      (b)   When the board of county commissioners of any county is presented with a petition requesting a vote on the proposition of using electronic or electromechanical voting systems in such county, signed by electors equal in number to not less than ten percent of the votes cast for secretary of state in the county at the last preceding general election at which the secretary of state was elected, such board of county commissioners shall submit the proposition to the voters of such county 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 and the county election officer shall provide such a system to be used at voting places at national, state, county, township, city and school primary and general elections and in question submitted elections.

      (c)   The board of county commissioners of any county in which the board of county commissioners and county election officer have determined that an electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be used or in which a proposition to use electronic or electromechanical systems has been adopted may issue bonds, without an election, to finance and pay for purchase, lease or rental of such a system.

      (d)   The board of county commissioners and the county election officer of any county may adopt, experiment with or abandon any electronic or electromechanical system herein authorized and approved for use in the state and may use such a system in all or any part of the voting areas within the county or in combination with regular paper ballots. Whenever the secretary of state rescinds approval of any voting system, the board of county commissioners and the county election officer shall abandon such system until changes therein required by the secretary of state have been made, or if the secretary of state advises that acceptable changes cannot be made therein, such abandonment shall be permanent.

      History:   L. 1977, ch 129, § 3; L. 1980, ch. 115, § 2; July 1.