2006 Kansas Code - 25-4411

      25-4411.   Same; vote tabulation equipment; testing; notice; conditions of test; error correction; sealing and disposition of programs and ballots. (a) The vote tabulation equipment may be located at any place within the county approved by the county election officer.

      (b)   Within five (5) days prior to the date of the election, the county election officer shall have the automatic tabulating equipment tested to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be given at least forty-eight (48) hours prior thereto by publication once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or city where such equipment is to be used. The test shall be observed by at least two (2) election inspectors, who shall not be of the same political party, and shall be open to representatives of the political parties, candidates, the press and the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited group of ballots and punched or marked as to record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each measure, and shall include for each office one or more ballots which have votes in excess of the number allowed by law in order to test the ability of the automatic tabulating equipment to reject such votes. If any error is detected, the cause therefor shall be ascertained and corrected and an errorless count shall be made before the automatic tabulating equipment is approved. The test shall be repeated immediately before the start of the official count of the ballots, and at the conclusion of the official count in the same manner as set forth above. After the completion of the count, the programs used and ballots shall be sealed, retained and disposed of in the same manner as paper ballots.

      History:   L. 1977, ch. 129, § 11; Jan. 1, 1979.