The authority charged by law with conducting an election must publish two notices of general, municipal, special, and primary elections held in the county in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or municipality, as appropriate. Included in each notice must be a reminder of the last day persons may register to be eligible to vote in the election for which notice is given, notification of the date, time, and location of the hearing on ballots challenged in the election, a list of the precincts involved in the election, the location of the polling places in each of the precincts, and notification that the process of examining the return-addressed envelopes containing absentee ballots may begin at 2:00 p.m. on election day at a place designated in the notice by the authority charged with conducting the election. The first notice must appear not later than sixty days before the election and the second notice must appear not later than two weeks after the first notice.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 572, eff July 1, 1978; 1988 Act No. 422, Section 2, eff March 28, 1988; 1990 Act No. 357, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 1992 Act No. 253, Section 1, eff February 19, 1992; 1996 Act No. 434, Section 5, eff June 4, 1996.
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