25-4602. Optical scanning equipment; bonds for purchase or lease; authorization by county officers; abandonment of system.
25-4602
25-4602. Optical scanning equipment; bonds forpurchase or lease; authorizationby county officers; abandonment of system.(a) The board of county commissioners and the county election officer ofany county may provide for use of a system using optical scanning equipmentto be used in the county at national, state, county, township, city andschool primary and general elections and in question submitted elections.
(b) The board of county commissioners of any county in which the boardand county election officer have determined that a system using opticalscanning equipment shall be used may issue bonds,withoutan election, to finance and pay for purchase, lease or rental of such asystem and optical scanning equipment.
(c) The board of county commissioners and the countyelection officerof any county may adopt, experiment with or abandon any system using opticalscanning equipment authorized under this act and approved by the secretaryof state for use in the state and may use such a system in all or any partof the voting areas within the county or in combination with an electronicor electromechanical voting system or with regular paperballots. Whenever the secretary of state rescinds approval of any suchsystem or optical scanning equipment, the board of county commissionersand the county election officer shall abandon such system until changestherein required by the secretary of state have been made, or if the secretaryof state advises that acceptable changes cannot be made therein, suchabandonmentshall be permanent.
History: L. 1982, ch. 158, § 2;L. 2007, ch. 125, § 25; July 1.