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Pennsylvania Statutes § 2967 Number of ballots to be printed; specimen ballots

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Statute Text

(a) The county board of each county shall provide for each election district [in which a primary is to be held, one book of fifty official ballots of each party for every forty-five registered and enrolled electors of such party and fraction thereof, appearing upon the district register, and shall provide for each election district in which an election is to be held one book of fifty official ballots for every forty-five registered electors and fraction thereof appearing upon the district register. They] a supply of official election ballots for:
(1) [Deleted by 2022 Amendment.]
(2) [Deleted by 2022 Amendment.]
(3) [Deleted by 2022 Amendment.]
(4) [Deleted by 2022 Amendment.]
(5) [Deleted by 2022 Amendment.]
(6) [Deleted by 2022 Amendment.]
(7) any primary election in an amount equal to at least 50% of the total number of registered electors in an election district, less the number of registered electors in the election district who have requested an absentee or mail-in ballot; and
(8) any general election in an amount equal to at least 100% of the total number of registered electors in an election district, less the number of registered electors in the election district who have requested an absentee or mail-in ballot.
(b) The county board of each county shall also, in addition to the number of ballots required to be printed for general distribution, maintain a sufficient supply of such ballots at the office of the county board for the use of absentee electors or mail-in electors and for the use of any district, the ballots for which may be lost, destroyed or stolen. They shall also cause to be printed on tinted paper, and without the facsimile endorsements or permanent binding, copies of the form of ballots provided for each polling place at each primary or election therein, which shall be called specimen ballots, and which shall be of the same size and form as the official ballots, and at each election they shall deliver to the election officers, in addition to the official ballots to be used at such election, a suitable supply of specimen ballots for the use of the electors. At each primary, a suitable supply of specimen ballots of each party shall be furnished.

History

Amended by P.L. TBD 2022 No. 66 , § 1 , eff. 9/9/2022 .

Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 94 , § 2 , eff. 11/27/2019 .

Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 77 , § 3 , eff. 10/31/2019 .

1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. X, § 1007. Amended 1963, Aug. 13, P.L. 707, § 18, effective 1/1/1964 ; 1998, Feb. 13, P.L. 72, No. 18, § 12, imd. effective.

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