KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES

25-2703. Voting places; equipping and supplying; voting booths, location, design and storage; privacy of voter.

25-2703

Chapter 25.--ELECTIONS Article 27.--VOTING PLACES AND MATERIALS THEREFOR

25-2703. Voting places; equipping and supplying; voting booths, location,design and storage; privacy of voter.The county election officers shallprovide suitablevoting places in which to hold all national, state, county, township,city and school primary and general elections, question submittedelections and other public elections. County election officers shall arrangefor voting places to bewarmed, lighted, and furnishedwith proper supplies and conveniences, including a sufficient number ofbooths, shelves and pencils, to enable the voters to prepare their ballots,screened from observation. Voting booths shall be in plainview of the receiving board, and both they and the ballot boxes shall bein plain view of electors waiting to vote. Each booth shall be designedso as to protect the privacy of the voter. Booths shallbe well lighted.

No person other than judges, clerks and other election officersallowed by law, and those admitted for the purpose of voting, shall bepermitted within three feet of the voting booths, of voting machineswhere they are used, or of any table being used by the election board,except by the authority of the supervising judge. Votingbooths shall be deposited with the countyelection officer between elections.

History: L. 1893, ch. 78, § 20; L. 1897, ch. 129, § 20; R.S.1923, 25-402; L. 1961, ch. 197, § 5; L. 1968, ch. 406, § 100; L. 1971,ch. 134, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 168, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 169, § 1; L. 1994,ch. 26, § 1; March 24.