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Pennsylvania Statutes § 3012 Delivery of voting machines and supplies by county election boards to election officers

⤴ Up to Article XI: Voting Machines

Statute Text

(a) The county election board shall deliver the proper voting machine or voting machines, properly furnished with ballot labels, to the polling places of the respective election districts, at least one hour before the time set for opening the polls at each election, and shall cause each machine to be set up in the proper manner for use in voting. Each machine shall then remain sealed until the examination immediately preceding the opening of the polls prescribed by this act.
(b) The county election board shall provide ample protection against molestation of and injury to the voting machine, and, for that purpose, shall and may call upon any police or elected peace officer of this Commonwealth to furnish such assistance as may be necessary, and it shall be the duty of police and elected peace officers to furnish such assistance when so requested by the county election board.
(c) The county election board shall furnish, at the expense of the county, and deliver with each voting machine:
1. A lantern, or a proper substitute for one, 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. 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 the enclosed space within the polling place.
3. A mechanically operated model of a portion of the face of a voting machine, for the instruction of electors. Such model shall be placed in the polling place and at or outside of the guard-rail or barrier.
4. A seal, for sealing the machine after the polls are closed; an envelope for the return of the keys, if the construction of the voting machine shall permit their separate return; and such other election materials and supplies as may to necessary, or as may be required by law.

History

1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. XI, § 1112.

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