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Arkansas Statutes § 7-5-318 Failure to deliver materials - Penalty - Messenger to obtain delinquent returns

⤴ Up to Subchapter 3: Conduct of Elections

Statute Text

(a) If the poll workers fail to deliver the ballots, ballot stubs, certification of election, voter lists, and other election returns in the manner provided for in § 7-5-317 , the poll workers shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the state for the use of the county.
(b) Upon failure of delivery of the election returns immediately after the polls close, the county board of election commissioners shall dispatch a peace officer to obtain the election returns, and all expenses incurred by sending the messenger shall be paid by the defaulting poll workers.

History

Acts 1969, No. 465, Art. 7, § 19; A.S.A. 1947, § 3-719; Acts 1997, No. 451, § 29; 2001, No. 798, § 1; 2009, No. 959, § 15.

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