§ 13219 Ballot Binding Requirements

• •Ballots must be bound in stub books of a size the clerk decides.
• •The officer who authorizes printing must keep a record of how many ballots are printed.
• •If stub books aren't used, the county elections official can choose another binding method.

A county clerk prints 12,000 ballots for an upcoming election. He decides each stub book will hold 500 ballots, binds them that way, and writes down that 12,000 ballots were printed. Later, the county elections official decides not to use stub books and instead has the ballots stapled together.

The clerk follows the rule by choosing a book size, binding the ballots, and keeping a record of the total printed. When stub books aren't used, the elections official uses a different binding method, which the law also allows.