All forms to be prescribed by the Secretary of State for the reporting of election returns hereunder shall be either hard copy forms on which precincts are listed horizontally and candidates are listed vertically and/or a web-based system in which these forms, or forms similar to them, are made available to counties electronically. Laws, 2002, ch. 534, § 8, eff. 7/29/2002 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,).
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