Section 17-9-24

Instruction of voters before election.

During the 30 days next preceding an election, the city commission in municipal elections, and the county commission in all other elections, shall place on public exhibition, in such public places and at such times as it may deem most suitable for the information and instruction of the voters, one or more voting machines, containing the ballot labels, and showing the offices and questions to be voted upon, the names and arrangements of parties, and, so far as practicable, the names and arrangements of the candidates to be voted for. Such machine or machines shall be under the charge and care of a person competent as custodian and instructor. No voting machine which is to be assigned for use in an election shall be used for such public exhibition and instruction after having been prepared and sealed for the election. Prior to any election, the county commission or city commission, as the case may be, may cause copies of any diagram or diagrams, required to be furnished with voting machines at polling places, to be made, either in full size or in reduced size, and to be posted, published, advertised or distributed among the electors in such manner as they may deem desirable.

(Acts 1939, No. 292, p. 443; Code 1940, T. 17, §106.)