The failure to distribute to the different voting places the pollbooks containing the alphabetical list of voters, or the ballot boxes provided for, shall not prevent the holding of an election, but in such case the poll managers shall proceed to hold the election without the books and ballot boxes, and shall provide some suitable substitute for the ballot boxes, and conform as nearly as possible to the law in the reception and disposition of the official ballots.Derived from 1972 Code § 23-5-113 [Codes, 1880, § 145; 1892, § 3676; 1906, § 4183; Hemingway's 1917, § 6817; 1930, § 6221; 1942, § 3250; repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 335]; Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 73, eff. 1/1/1987.Amended by Laws, 2017, ch. 441, HB 467, 57, eff. 7/1/2017.
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