25-2703. Voting places; equipping and supplying; voting booths, location, design and storage; privacy of voter. The county election officers shall provide suitable voting places in which to hold all national, state, county, township, city and school primary and general elections, question submitted elections and other public elections. County election officers shall arrange for voting places to be warmed, lighted, and furnished with proper supplies and conveniences, including a sufficient number of booths, shelves and pencils, to enable the voters to prepare their ballots, screened from observation. Voting booths shall be in plain view of the receiving board, and both they and the ballot boxes shall be in plain view of electors waiting to vote. Each booth shall be designed so as to protect the privacy of the voter. Booths shall be well lighted.
No person other than judges, clerks and other election officers allowed by law, and those admitted for the purpose of voting, shall be permitted within three feet of the voting booths, of voting machines where they are used, or of any table being used by the election board, except by the authority of the supervising judge. Voting booths shall be deposited with the county election officer between elections.
History: L. 1893, ch. 78, § 20; L. 1897, ch. 129, § 20; R.S. 1923, 25-402; L. 1961, ch. 197, § 5; L. 1968, ch. 406, § 100; L. 1971, ch. 134, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 168, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 169, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 26, § 1; March 24.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 27 - Voting Places And Materials Therefor
25-2702 Townships; division into precincts.
25-2702a Undivided wards and townships to constitute precincts.
25-2703a School buildings, polling places.
25-2704 Ballot boxes; secretary of state may adopt rules and regulations.
25-2705 Security of ballot boxes at polls.
25-2707 Receipt for and record of election supplies.
25-2708 Preservation of ballots and election records; distribution of abstracts of voting.
25-2709 Destruction of election records.
25-2710 Accessibility for voting places.
25-2711 Placement of political signs during election period.