A. The county clerk shall make available in both English and Spanish a number of sample ballots in a quantity and in a printed or electronic format as prescribed by the secretary of state.

B. The sample ballots shall be the same in all respects as the official ballots, except that, if printed, they shall be printed on colored paper and shall not contain the facsimile signature of the county clerk or any endorsement on the back thereof. Each sample ballot shall be marked in large black capital letters, "SAMPLE BALLOT".

C. Printed sample ballots shall be made available in reasonable quantities to all interested persons at the county clerk's office, in each polling place and on the county's web site, if the county maintains a web site.

History: 1953 Comp., § 3-10-14, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 209; 1971, ch. 317, § 18; 1977, ch. 124, § 4; 1985, ch. 207, § 23; 2015, ch. 145, § 59.

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, provided that the county clerk shall make available a number of sample ballots in a quantity and format prescribed by the secretary of state and shall make the sample ballots available at the county clerk's office, in each polling place and on the county's web site, if the county maintains a web site; in Subsection A, deleted "At the time of printing the official ballots", after "county clerk shall", deleted "cause to be printed" and added "make available", after "in a quantity", deleted "equal to ten percent of the number of voters in each precinct" and added "and in a printed or electronic format as prescribed by the secretary of state"; in Subsection B, after "except that," added "if printed"; in Subsection C, added "Printed", after "interested persons", deleted "for distribution to the voters within the appropriate precincts." and added "at the county clerk's office, in each polling place and on the county's website, if the county maintains a web site"; and deleted Subsection D.