2006 Utah Code - 20A-5-102 — Voting instructions.

     20A-5-102.   Voting instructions.
     (1) Each election officer shall:
     (a) print instruction cards for voters;
     (b) ensure that the cards are printed in English in large clear type; and
     (c) ensure that the cards instruct voters:
     (i) about how to obtain ballots for voting;
     (ii) about special political party affiliation requirements for voting in the Western States Presidential Primary or in a regular primary election;
     (iii) about how to prepare ballots for deposit in the ballot box;
     (iv) about how to record write-in votes;
     (v) about how to obtain a new ballot in the place of one spoiled by accident or mistake;
     (vi) about how to obtain assistance in marking ballots;
     (vii) about obtaining a new ballot if the voter's ballot is defaced;
     (viii) that identification marks or the spoiling or defacing of a ballot will make it invalid;
     (ix) about how to obtain and vote a provisional ballot;
     (x) about whom to contact to report election fraud;
     (xi) about applicable federal and state laws regarding:
     (A) voting rights and the appropriate official to contact if the voter alleges his rights have been violated; and
     (B) prohibitions on acts of fraud and misrepresentation;
     (xii) about procedures governing mail-in registrants and first-time voters; and
     (xiii) about the date of the election and the hours that the polls are open on election day.
     (2) Each election officer shall:
     (a) provide the election judges of each voting precinct with sufficient instruction cards to instruct voters in the preparation of their ballots;
     (b) direct the election judges to post:
     (i) general voting instructions in each voting booth; and
     (ii) at least three instruction cards and at least one sample ballot elsewhere in and about the polling place.

Amended by Chapter 116, 2003 General Session

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