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Section 116.310 Time limited for designating challengers and watchers for polling places and counting locations — effect of failure to designate by prescribed time.

MO Rev Stat § 116.310 (2019) (N/A)
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Effective 01 Jan 1981, see footnote

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.

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(L. 1980 S.B. 658)

Effective 1-01-81

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Section 116.310 Time limited for designating challengers and watchers for polling places and counting locations — effect of failure to designate by prescribed time.