2021 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 12 - Elections
Chapter 20 - Return And Canvass Of Votes
Section 12-20-48 - Abstract by state canvassers of county returns--Signature and seal--Recording and filing of abstracts.
12-20-48. Abstract by state canvassers of county returns--Signature and seal--Recording and filing of abstracts.
The Board of State Canvassers shall make an abstract stating the number of votes cast for each of such officers, the names of all persons voted for, for what office they respectively received the votes, and the number of votes each received, in words at length, and stating whom they declare to be elected to each office, which abstract shall be signed by the canvassers in their official capacity and as state canvassers, and have the great seal of the state affixed.
The secretary of state shall record such abstracts in a book to be kept by him for recording the result of state elections, called the "election book," and also file such abstracts.
Source: SL 1890, ch 84, §§8, 9; RPolC 1903, §§1950, 1952; RC 1919, §§7297, 7299; SDC 1939, §16.1718.
