Sec. 8. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all written or printed instructions must be at the top of the ballot immediately below the statement required by section 7 of this chapter. No other instructions or writing may appear at any other place on the ballot, including the ballot for federal and state offices, except as specified by this title.
(b) At the discretion of the county election board, general instructions to the voters required by this title to be placed at the front of the ballot may be posted in writing in each voting booth instead of printing the instructions on the ballot.
(c) The instructions must be in English and any other language that the board considers necessary, clear, concise, and written so that a voter will not be confused about the effect of the voter's voting mark and vote.
[Pre-1986 Recodification Citations: 3-1-23-1(a) part, (c).]
As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.6-1986, SEC.16; P.L.3-1987, SEC.203; P.L.221-2005, SEC.41; P.L.21-2016, SEC.3.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment
Chapter 2. General Election Ballot Form for Paper Ballots
3-11-2-3. Requirements of Size, Quality and Color, and Thickness; Precinct Designation
3-11-2-5. Name and Device; Listing of Nominees
3-11-2-6. Name and Device; Order; Political Party; Write-in Voting
3-11-2-7. Cautionary Statement
3-11-2-8. Instructions; Form, Location, and Contents; Exception
3-11-2-9. Device of Political Parties or Independent Ticket
3-11-2-10. Arrangement of Ballot
3-11-2-10.1. Retention of Marion County Superior Court Judges
3-11-2-11.5. Names of Write-in Candidates Not Printed on Ballot
3-11-2-12. Ballot Order of Offices
3-11-2-12.2. Order of Districts on Ballot
3-11-2-12.5. Ballot Order; Alternative Order of County Offices
3-11-2-12.9. Ballot Order; School Board Offices
3-11-2-13. Ballot Order; Retention of Justice or Appellate Judge
3-11-2-14. Ballot Order; Other Judicial Offices
3-11-2-14.5. Ballot Order; Candidates for At-Large Seats on Governing Body of School Corporation