§ 19206 Ballot System Consistency Rules

• •Put candidate names on the primary voting system whenever possible.
• •A single race or ballot measure cannot be split across different voting systems or between a system and paper ballots.
• •These rules apply unless Section 19209 gives a special exception.

A town uses electronic machines for most elections but also uses paper ballots for a special referendum. The town tries to count the mayor race partly on the machines and partly on paper ballots.

The law says the mayor race can't be divided between the machines and the paper ballots, so all mayor votes have to be counted on one system (or the paper ballots have to be used for the whole race).