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§ 12-17B-5 Testing system before election--Public notice.

SD Codified L § 12-17B-5 (2019) (N/A)
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12-17B-5. Testing system before election--Public notice. Not more than ten days prior to an election, the person in charge of the election shall conduct a test of the automatic tabulating equipment to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. Public notice of the test shall be given at least forty-eight hours prior to the test by publication once in the official newspaper of the election jurisdiction. The test shall be open to the public. If any error is detected, the cause of the error shall be determined and corrected and an errorless count shall be made before the automatic tabulating equipment is approved.

Source: SL 1994, ch 110, § 9.

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§ 12-17B-5 Testing system before election--Public notice.