Kansas Statutes 25-4602. Optical scanning equipment; bonds for purchase or lease; authorization by county officers; abandonment of system
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 25-4602
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Optical scanning equipment: means apparatus designed to examine and detect opaque marks on ballots which represent votes and count and tabulate those votes by electronic methods. See Kansas Statutes 25-4601
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- System: means an optical scanning system of automatically counting and tabulating ballots with optical scanning equipment. See Kansas Statutes 25-4601
(a) The board of county commissioners and the county election officer of any county may provide for use of a system using optical scanning equipment to be used in the county at national, state, county, township, city and school primary and general elections and in question submitted elections.
(b) The board of county commissioners of any county in which the board and county election officer have determined that a system using optical scanning equipment shall be used may issue bonds, without an election, to finance and pay for purchase, lease or rental of such a system and optical scanning equipment.
(c) The board of county commissioners and the county election officer of any county may adopt, experiment with or abandon any system using optical scanning equipment authorized under this act and approved by the secretary of state for use in the state and may use such a system in all or any part of the voting areas within the county or in combination with an electronic or electromechanical voting system or with regular paper ballots. Whenever the secretary of state rescinds approval of any such system or optical scanning equipment, the board of county commissioners and the county election officer shall abandon such system until changes therein required by the secretary of state have been made, or if the secretary of state advises that acceptable changes cannot be made therein, such abandonment shall be permanent.