2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 117 - REGULATION OF ELECTIONS 117.066 Ability of precinct with small number of voters to use voting facilities and election officers of larger precinct.
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117.066 Ability of precinct with small number of voters to use voting facilities
and election officers of larger precinct.
(1)
(2)
In the case of a precinct comprised of a small number of registered voters, the
county board of elections may, pursuant to KRS 117.055, utilize the facilities of
another precinct as a voting location. Additionally, the county board of elections
may petition the State Board of Elections to allow the precinct election officers
of the larger precinct to serve as precinct election officers for the precinct that
is the subject of the petition. The petition shall designate both the smaller
precinct and the larger precinct with which it is to be included, the type of voting
machine or machines to be used, and whether supplemental paper ballots are
to be used. The petition shall contain a full explanation of the reasons why
inclusion is desirable.
If the petition submitted pursuant to subsection (1) of this section is approved
by the State Board of Elections, the election shall be conducted according to
the following provisions:
(a) One voting machine may be utilized for both precincts if the State Board
of Elections certifies that separate ballots may be placed upon the voting
machine to be used without endangering the integrity of the ballots or
without violating any other election law. Otherwise, separate voting
machines shall be used for each precinct. In the instance of a precinct
which has a small number of voters such that the use of a separate voting
machine would be cost-prohibitive, the county clerk may make application
to the State Board of Elections to use supplemental paper ballots under
KRS 118.215 to conduct the voting for the small precinct on election day.
If the use of supplemental paper ballots is approved by the State Board of
Elections, at the close of voting on election day, the locked ballot box
shall be transported to the county board of elections and ballots shall be
counted by the county board of elections as provided by KRS 117.275(10)
to (13);
(b) Separate precinct voter rosters shall be maintained for each precinct, and
steps shall be taken to insure that voters cast their ballot in their duly
authorized precinct; and
(c) A separate set of elections forms and reports required by this chapter and
the State Board of Elections shall be maintained for each precinct.
Effective:July 15, 2008
History: Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 13, effective July 15, 2008. -Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 3, effective April 2, 2002. -- Created 1992
Ky. Acts ch. 430, sec. 10, effective April 13, 1992.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2010). A reference to "KRS
117.275(7)" in subsection (2)(a) of this statute has been changed in codification
to "KRS 117.275(10) to (13)." 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 176, sec. 8, renumbered and
subdivided the former subsection (7) of KRS 117.275 as subsections (10), (11),
(12), and (13), but failed to include a conforming amendment to the reference in
subsection (2)(a) of this statute. This manifest clerical or typographical error has
been corrected by the Reviser of Statutes under the authority of KRS 7.136(1).
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