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Ark. Code Ann. § 7-5-417

Challenge of absentee votes

Acts 1969, No. 465, Art. 9, § 14; A.S.A. 1947, § 3-914; Acts 1997, No. 1092, § 13; 2003, No. 1154, § 4; 2005, No. 67, § 13; 2005, No. 880, § 7; 2007, No. 556, § 14.

(1) When the name and voting precinct of a voter is read by the election official, any candidate or qualified poll watcher pursuant to § 7-5-312 may challenge the vote in the manner provided by law for personal voting challenges, and the election officials shall consider the ballot as a provisional ballot.

(2) If the statement is not in proper form or for any other legal reason the vote should not be counted, the ballot shall not be counted and shall be preserved together with the statement and envelope for the same period of time that the statements are preserved.

(3) If the county board of election commissioners determines that the provisional voter is qualified and that the vote was properly cast, the vote shall be counted.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.