1. (a) The use of an optical scan voting system may be authorized for use in absentee precincts in a county.
2. (b) The county board of voter registration and elections shall provide an optical voting system in such numbers as it considers necessary in good working order and of sufficient capacity to accommodate the names of all candidates for all party offices and nominations and public offices that, under the provisions of existing laws and party rules, are to be voted for at any primary or other election.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-400.102; 1970 (56) 2022; 2005 Act No. 63, Section 2, eff May 16, 2005.

Code Commissioner's Note

Pursuant to the directive in 2014 Act No. 196, Section 8, at the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to county election commissions or commissioners or county boards of voter registration were changed to the "Board of Voter Registration and Elections" and board members as appropriate.

Effect of Amendment

The 2005 amendment, in subsection (a), substituted "an optical scan voting system" for "vote recorders" and "absentee" for "some" and deleted "without requiring their use in all precincts" following "county"; deleted subsection (b) allowing different kinds of vote recorders to be used in different precincts within a county; redesignated subsection (c) as subsection (b) and substituted "an optical voting system" for "vote recorders" and "considers" for "deems".