ARTICLE 5. Manual Vote Count in the Precinct [15270. - 15281.]
Article 5 added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1073, Sec. 27.
§§ 15270–15281 · 16 sections
- § 15270 This article applies to all elections in which ballots are counted by hand.
- § 15270.1 (a) An elections official shall not conduct a manual vote count pursuant to this article or Article 6 (commencing with Section 15290) in any election unless…
- § 15270.2 The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations regarding manual vote counts.
- § 15270.3 Notwithstanding Section 15270.1 or subdivision (a) of Section 19207.5, an elections official may conduct a manual vote count in the event of a natural disaster…
- § 15271 As soon as the polls are finally closed, the precinct board shall commence to count the votes by taking the ballots cast, unopened, out of the box and counting…
- § 15272 The count shall be public and shall be continued without adjournment until completed and the result is declared. During the reading and tallying, the ballot…
- § 15273 Unless otherwise provided in this code, the precinct board members may not constitute themselves into separate squads in an attempt to conduct more than one…
- § 15274 The members of the precinct board may relieve each other in the duties of counting ballots.
- § 15275 Those ballots not rejected shall be placed in one pile, and the board shall proceed to count by tallying the vote for one or more offices or measures at a time.
- § 15276 The precinct board members shall ascertain the number of votes cast for each person and for and against each measure in the following manner: One precinct…
- § 15277 (a) Two of the precinct board members shall each keep a tally sheet in a form prescribed by the elections official. Each tally sheet shall contain all of the…
- § 15278 On completion of the canvass of the returns for each election, the elections official shall compare the vote by mail voters’ list with the roster for each…
- § 15278.5 No precinct board member may make any tally of votes in any other manner than is provided in this article, nor in any place other than on the tally sheets…
- § 15279 The ballots, as soon as all of the names and measures marked on them as voted for are read and tallied, shall not thereafter be examined by any person, but, as…
- § 15280 The precinct board shall complete, sign, and return to the elections official all furnished forms requiring its signatures. When votes are counted at the…
- § 15281 The precinct board shall sign and post conspicuously on the outside of the polling place a copy of the result of the votes cast. The copy shall remain posted…