§11-184 - Election expenses and responsibilities in combined state and county elections.
§11-184 Election expenses and responsibilities in combined state and county elections. Election expenses in elections involving both state and county offices shall be shared as set forth below:
(1) The State shall pay and be responsible for:
(A) Precinct officials;
(B) Instruction of precinct officials when initiated or approved by the chief election officer;
(C) Boards of registration;
(D) Polling place costs other than supplies: installation rentals, ballot boxes, voting booths, custodians, telephones, and maintenance;
(E) Other equipment such as ballot transport containers;
(F) Temporary election employees hired to do strictly state work; and
(G) Extraordinary voter registration and voter education costs when approved by the chief election officer.
(2) The county shall pay and be responsible for:
(A) Normal voter registration, voters list maintenance, and all printing connected with voter registration, including printing of the voters list;
(B) Temporary election employees hired to do strictly county work;
(C) Maintenance of existing voting machines, including parts, freight, storage, programming, and personnel;
(D) Maintenance and storage of voting devices and other equipment; and
(E) Employees assigned to conduct absentee polling place functions.
(3) The remaining election expenses shall be divided in half between the State and the counties. Each county will pay a proration of expenses as a proportion of the registered voters at the time of the general election. These expenses shall include but not be limited to:
(A) Polling place supplies;
(B) All printing, including ballots, but excluding printing connected with voter registration;
(C) Temporary election employees not including voting machine programmers doing work for both the State and county;
(D) Ballot preparation and packing; and
(E) All other costs for which the State or county are not specifically responsible relating to the operation of voting machines, electronic voting systems, and other voting systems except paper ballots to include but not be limited to real property rentals, equipment rentals, personnel, mileage, telephones, supplies, publicity, computer programming, and freight.
The responsibility for the above functions shall be determined by the chief election officer where the responsibility for such functions has not been assigned by the legislature.
Any future expenses not presently incurred under any voting system now in use or to be used shall be assigned to paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) above by the chief election officer upon agreement with the clerks or by the legislature. [L 1970, c 26, pt of §2; am L 1973, c 217, §1(eee); am L 1976, c 106, §1(10)]