25-4505. Canvass by county board of canvassers; transmittal of abstract to secretary of state.
25-4505
25-4505. Canvass by county board of canvassers;transmittal of abstractto secretary of state.The county board of canvassers of each county shall meet at the office of thecounty election officer unless another place is agreed upon and announced asprovided in K.S.A. 25-3105, and amendments thereto, at any time between8:00 and 10:00 o'clock a.m. on the Friday following the day a presidentialpreference primary election is held and canvass the vote of such preferenceprimary. The county election officer may move the canvass to the Monday nextfollowing the election if notice of such change is published prior to thecanvass in a newspaper of general circulation within the county. Uponcompletion of such canvass, the county election officer of each county shallprepare an abstract of the vote of the presidential preference primary electionin his or her county as such vote is determined by the county board ofcanvassers and shall promptly transmit the same to the secretary of state nolater than the tenth day after the day of the election. Each county electionofficer shall also post a copy of such abstract in a public place in thecourthouse of his or her county.
Every such transmittal shall be made by first class mail or by a messenger.If the secretary of state fails to receive the abstract of the canvass fromany county within 14 days next after the election,he or she shall dispatch a special messenger to obtain a copy of the same, andthe county election officer shall immediately, on demand of such messenger,make out and deliver to such messenger the copy required. Thereupon, themessenger shall deliver such copy to the secretary of state, and the secretaryof state shall be reimbursed for the expenses of such messenger by suchcounty.
History: L. 1978, ch. 141, § 5; L. 1979, ch. 113, § 4;L. 2003, ch. 112, § 7; July 1.