§ 20A-5-102. Voting instructions.

(1) Each election officer shall:

(a) print instruction cards for voters;

(b) ensure that the cards are printed in English in large clear type; and

(c) ensure that the cards instruct voters:

(i) about how to obtain ballots for voting;

(ii) about special political party affiliation requirements for voting in the Western States Presidential Primary or in a regular primary election;

(iii) about how to prepare ballots for deposit in the ballot box;

(iv) about how to record write-in votes;

(v) about how to obtain a new ballot in the place of one spoiled by accident or mistake;

(vi) about how to obtain assistance in marking ballots;

(vii) about obtaining a new ballot if the voter's ballot is defaced;

(viii) that identification marks or the spoiling or defacing of a ballot will make it invalid;

(ix) about how to obtain and vote a provisional ballot;

(x) about whom to contact to report election fraud;

(xi) about applicable federal and state laws regarding:

(A) voting rights and the appropriate official to contact if the voter alleges his rights have been violated; and

(B) prohibitions on acts of fraud and misrepresentation;

(xii) about procedures governing mail-in registrants and first-time voters; and

(xiii) about the date of the election and the hours that the polls are open on election day.

(2) Each election officer shall:

(a) provide the election judges of each voting precinct with sufficient instruction cards to instruct voters in the preparation of their ballots;

(b) direct the election judges to post:

(i) general voting instructions in each voting booth; and

(ii) at least three instruction cards and at least one sample ballot elsewhere in and about the polling place.

Amended by Chapter 116, 2003 General Session