Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-263

Download or read book Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-263 written by Robert T. Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subsection (e) of K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-4406 requires that, to be approved for use in Kansas, an electronic or electromechanical voting system must prevent the voter from casting more votes for an office or candidate than that which the voter is entitled by law to cast for such office or candidate, and a voting system which does not prevent "overvoting" in the first instance, but merely rejects all votes for an office or candidate by a voter who has overvoted, does not meet these requirements. Any such voting system which does not provide an enclosed voting station which conceals the voter from observation, view or detection while voting does not meet the requirements in K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-4406(h) that such voting system must provide for voting in "absolute secrecy." In evaluating whether an electronic or electromechanical voting system should be approved for use in Kansas, the secretary of state is limited to a consideration of whether the voting system satisfies the requirements of K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-4406 and can be used safely. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-1310, K.S.A. 25-2703 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 169, section 1), K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-4401, 25-4404, 25-4405 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 172, section 1), 25-4406.