An election officer shall deliver manual ballots to the poll workers of each voting precinct in the election officer‘s jurisdiction in an amount sufficient to meet voting needs during the voting period.
Terms Used In Utah Code 20A-5-406
Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
Election: means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a special district election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
Election officer: means :
(a)
the lieutenant governor, for all statewide ballots and elections;
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Polling place: means a building where voting is conducted. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
Voting precinct: means the smallest geographical voting unit, established under 3. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
(2)
For mechanical ballots, an election officer shall:
(a)
deliver the voting devices and mechanical ballots before voting commences at the polling place;
(b)
ensure that the voting devices, equipment, and mechanical ballots are properly secured before commencement of voting;
(c)
when mechanical ballots or voting devices containing mechanical ballots are delivered to a polling place, ensure that security procedures, developed by the election officer, are followed to document chain of custody and to prevent unauthorized access; and
(d)
repair or provide substitute voting devices, equipment, or electronic ballots, if available, if any poll worker reports that:
(i)
the voting devices or equipment were not delivered on time;
(ii)
the voting devices or equipment do not contain the appropriate electronic ballot information;
(iii)
the safety devices on the voting devices, equipment, or electronic ballots appear to have been tampered with;
(iv)
the voting devices or equipment do not appear to be functioning properly; or
(v)
after delivery, the voting devices, equipment, or electronic ballots were destroyed or stolen.
