2006 Kansas Code - 25-4602

      25-4602.   Optical scanning equipment; bonds for purchase or lease; authorization by county officers or by petition and election. (a) The board of county commissioners and the county election officer of any county may provide for use of a system using optical scanning equipment to be used 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 a system using optical scanning equipment in such county, signed by electors equal in number to not less than 10% 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 are in favor of the proposition, the board of county commissioners and the county election officer shall provide such a system to be used 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 and county election officer have determined that a system using optical scanning equipment shall be used or in which a proposition to use a system that uses optical scanning equipment has been adopted may issue bonds, without an election, to finance and pay for purchase, lease or rental of such a system and optical scanning equipment.

      (d)   The board of county commissioners and the county election officer of any county may adopt, experiment with or abandon any system using optical scanning equipment authorized under this act and approved by the secretary of state 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 such system or optical scanning equipment, 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. 1982, ch. 158, § 2; April 29.