Section 17-9-22

Delivery of voting machine supplies to election officers.

The authority designated in Section 17-9-18 shall furnish and deliver with each voting machine:

(1) Lighting facilities which shall give sufficient light to enable voters, while in the voting machine booth, to read the ballot labels, and suitable for the use of election officers in examining the counters. The lantern, or proper substitute therefor, shall be prepared and in good order for use before the opening of the polls.

(2) A model and two diagrams or sample ballots, of suitable size, representing such part of the face of such voting machine as will be in use in the election, and accompanied by directions for voting on the machine. Such diagrams shall be posted prominently outside, for the instruction of electors. Such model shall be placed in the polling place and at or outside of the guard-rail or barrier.

(3) A seal, or seals, for sealing the machine after the polls are closed.

(4) An envelope for the return of the keys, if the construction of the voting machine shall permit their separate return.

(5) Such other election materials and supplies as may be necessary, or as may be required by law.

(Acts 1939, No. 292, p. 443; Code 1940, T. 17, §104.)