The Florida Senate

101.22  Voting procedure, paper ballots.--Before any paper ballot is delivered to an elector at the polls on election day, one of the inspectors shall affix his or her initials on the line provided on each of the two ballot stubs and the elector shall sign his or her name on the line on the top stub, or, if the elector is unable to write, he or she shall sign his or her mark. The inspector shall compare the signature on the ballot stub with the signature on the elector's registration and, if necessary, require other identification. If the inspector is reasonably sure that the person is entitled to vote, the inspector shall detach and retain the upper stub, and the elector shall go to the booth and mark his or her ballot and, after the elector has marked the ballot, he or she shall fold it so as to leave the stub remaining attached visible so that it can be detached without unfolding. The inspector shall compare it with the stub he or she retained and, if it is the ballot the inspector delivered to the elector, the inspector shall detach and retain the remaining stub, and the elector shall then deposit the folded ballot in the ballot box. But, if the marked ballot returned proves to be a different one from the one delivered to the elector, the inspector shall search the elector, and, if the original ballot is found on the elector's person, the inspector shall take possession of the ballot and discharge the elector from the polling place without permitting him or her to vote. An inspector of elections, where paper ballots are used, is clothed with such police power as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

History.--s. 36, ch. 4328, 1895; GS 221; s. 42, ch. 6469, 1913; RGS 266, 346, 5911; CGL 322, 403, 8175; s. 6, ch. 17898, s. 3, ch. 17901, 1937; s. 6, ch. 25187, s. 4, ch. 25386, 1949; s. 5, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 16, ch. 77-175; s. 35, ch. 79-400; s. 558, ch. 95-147.

Note.--Former ss. 99.20, 102.41.