A. The board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution creating, for absent voting purposes only, an absent voter precinct for each county.
B. Absent voter precincts shall be identified by the name of the county.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-6-20, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 54, § 3; 1971, ch. 317, § 12; 1975, ch. 255, § 92; 1977, ch. 222, § 14; 2005, ch. 270, § 52.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, in Subsection A, provided that the resolution create a precinct for each county; in Subsection A, deleted the former provision which provided that the resolution create a precinct for each state legislative district and the boundaries of each precinct coincide with the boundaries of the state representative district except for multi-county representative districts where the boundaries of the precinct shall coincide with the boundaries of that portion of the representative district lying within the county; and in Subsection B, deleted the former provision which provided that precincts be identified by the name of the state representative district number or in multi-county representative districts the precinct shall be distinguished by the name of the county.