13-13-117. Method of voting. (1) Upon receipt of a ballot, an elector shall immediately retire to one of the booths and prepare the elector's ballot.
     (2) The elector shall prepare the ballot in the manner prescribed in the instructions for electors provided pursuant to 13-13-112.
     (3) The elector may vote for a write-in candidate by marking the ballot in a manner consistent with the instructions provided by the election administrator pursuant to 13-13-112. Except as provided in 13-15-202, a ballot marked for a write-in candidate in accordance with the appropriate instructions must be counted as if the name of the write-in candidate had been printed on the ballot.
     (4) The judge receiving the ballots shall remove the stubs in sight of the elector and deposit each ballot in the ballot box and each stub in a box for detached stubs. The judge shall place the ballots in the ballot box immediately without opening or examining them.
     (5) No individual except an election judge may put a ballot, any paper resembling a ballot, or anything other than a ballot in a ballot box.
     (6) An elector who spoils the elector's ballot must, on returning the spoiled ballot, receive another in place of it.

     History: En. Sec. 110, Ch. 571, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 298, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 391, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 134, L. 2001.