Chapter 006
2017 -- S 0794
Enacted 06/19/2017

A N   A C T
RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

Introduced By: Senator Erin P. Lynch Prata
Date Introduced: April 25, 2017

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
     SECTION 1. Section 17-19-13 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-19 entitled "Conduct
of Election and Voting Equipment, and Supplies" is hereby amended to read as follows:
     17-19-13. Exhibition of machines for instructional purposes.
     The local board shall may designate suitable and adequate times and places where optical
scan voting equipment and sample ballots showing titles of offices to be filled and, so far as
practicable, the names of candidates to be voted for at the next election shall be exhibited for the
purpose of giving instructions as to the manner of casting a vote to all voters who apply. No
optical scan precinct count unit that is to be used in an election shall be used for the instruction
after it has been prepared and sealed for the election.
     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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