13-15-105. Notices relating to absentee ballot counting board. - Montana Statutes

     13-15-105. Notices relating to absentee ballot counting board. (1) Whenever an absentee ballot counting board is appointed under 13-15-112, the election administrator shall:
     (a) publish in the contracted newspaper of the county as provided in 18-7-411 a notice indicating the method that will be used for counting absentee ballots; and
     (b) post in a conspicuous location at the office of the election administrator, by 5 p.m. of the day before an election, a notice that indicates the place and time that the counting board for absentee ballots will meet on election day.
     (2) If the count will begin while the polls are open, the notice required under subsection (1) must inform the public that any person observing the procedures of the counting board must be sequestered with the board until the polls are closed and is required to take the oath provided in 13-15-207(4).

     History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 120, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 54, Ch. 414, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 2, L. 2009.