Effective - 01 Jan 1981
116.310. Time limited for designating challengers and watchers for polling places and counting locations — effect of failure to designate by prescribed time. — 1. Not later than the Tuesday prior to an election on a statewide ballot measure, each county campaign committee chairman who had the right to designate challengers under section 116.300 shall designate such challengers, who may be present at each polling place during the hours of voting. Each such chairman shall also by the same time designate a challenger for each location at which absentee ballots are counted. The challengers so designated may be present while the ballots are being prepared for counting and being counted.
2. Not later than the Tuesday prior to an election on a statewide ballot measure, each campaign committee chairman who has the right to designate watchers under section 116.300 shall designate a watcher for each place votes are counted.
3. After challengers and watchers have been designated, the provisions contained in sections 115.105, 115.107, 115.109, and 115.111 shall apply to them.
4. Failure to designate challengers and watchers by the prescribed times shall cause the county campaign committee to forfeit its right to name such persons for those omitted locations for that election.
--------
(L. 1980 S.B. 658)
Effective 1-01-81
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title IX - Suffrage and Elections
Chapter 116 - Initiative and Referendum
Section 116.010 - Definitions.
Section 116.020 - Application of laws.
Section 116.050 - Initiative and referendum petitions, requirements.
Section 116.070 - Petitioner may sign by mark, procedure.
Section 116.080 - Qualifications of circulator — affidavit, notarization, penalty.
Section 116.090 - Petition signature fraud, penalty.
Section 116.100 - Filing of petition, procedure.
Section 116.110 - Signature may be withdrawn, when, how, effect, penalty.
Section 116.115 - Withdrawal of petition, when — vacation of official ballot title, when.
Section 116.140 - Secretary of state's authority not to count forged or fraudulent signatures.
Section 116.185 - Identical ballot titles may be changed, how.
Section 116.195 - Costs of court-ordered ballot title change to be paid by the state.
Section 116.210 - Numbering of proposed constitutional amendments.
Section 116.220 - Labeling of initiative and referendum measures.
Section 116.230 - Sample ballots to be prepared, form.
Section 116.240 - Certification to election authorities of notice to be published — contents.
Section 116.250 - Publication of legal notice.
Section 116.270 - Publications fund created — payments from fund for what, how made.
Section 116.280 - Paper ballots for statewide measures, form.
Section 116.300 - Challengers and watchers at polling places, how designated.
Section 116.320 - Adoption of measure, vote required — effect of approval of conflicting measures.
Section 116.330 - Board of canvassers or governor to issue statement.