12-15-14. Counting boards in large paper ballot precincts--Duties.In each election precinct in which the number of ballots to be voted on paper ballots, including absentee ballots, has in prior general elections exceeded three hundred voters, the auditor shall appoint a precinct counting board to be composed of five precinct deputies, one of whom shall be superintendent, who shall count the ballots cast in the general election under the direction of the superintendent of the counting board. Source: SL 1963, ch 117, §§1, 2; SDCL, §12-15-15; SL 1970, ch 90; SL 1972, ch 86; SL 1974, ch 118, §68; SL 1975, ch 119, §7; SL 1976, ch 105, §40; SL 1993, ch 118, §8; SL 1999, ch 69, §12.
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