§ 2.24.120. Challenging an elector.


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  • Any person offering to vote may be challenged as unqualified by any of the election officers or by any legal voter or bystander, and it shall be the duty of each of the judges to challenge any person offering to vote, whom they know, suspect or believe, not to be qualified as an elector. A person whose right to vote has been challenged may be issued a ballot if he/she first completes and subscribes to an affidavit of his/her qualifications. When the marked ballot is returned to the officials, it shall be placed in a plain envelope and then placed in an official envelope bearing the aforesaid affidavit, the envelope sealed and the whole placed in the ballot box. The election supervisor shall provide forms and materials for this procedure. All envelopes containing challenged ballots shall be delivered to the election supervisor, to be forwarded, unopened, to the canvass board.

(Prior code § 36.30.120)