The ballot box shall then be opened and the ballots taken out, sorted so that all ballots on certain candidacies and issues are separately identified, and counted by the members of the counting board unopened, except to ascertain if each ballot is single.

Source: 4 SDR 26, effective October 27, 1977; 25 SDR 167, effective July 6, 1999.

General Authority: SDCL 12-1-9(4) , 12-20-52.

Law Implemented: SDCL 12-20-2.