Section 3-177-759 - Electronic voting system counting; duplication procedure(a) Counting center officials shall record and reconcile the number of defective ballots before and after the ballot is duplicated.(b) Counting center officials, in the presence of representatives who are not of the same political party or official observers, shall prepare a duplicate ballot to replace each, defective ballot. To the extent a defective ballot is the result of the wrong ballot type having been used for a particular district, counting center officials shall ensure that all votes, cast in contests for which the voters in that district are entitled to vote are properly duplicated onto the duplicate ballot associated with the correct ballot type, for counting. All of the votes in contests for which the voters in that district, are not entitled to vote will not be counted and as such will not be duplicated onto a duplicate ballot. Unvoted ballots for duplication and voting devices shall be authorized in the counting center for this purpose.(c) Counting center officials shall prepare a reconciliation of the number of duplicated ballots used to replace the defective ballots. The defective ballots shall be invalid and stored in accordance with subsection (f).(d) Duplicated ballots shall be returned to the appropriate originating counting center officials for final verification.(e) All valid ballots shall be read and counted by the vote counting system. If, during the scanning of the ballots additional defective, ballots are rejected, the defective ballots shall be processed in accordance with subsections (a) through (d).(f) After the duplicated ballots are counted, the. counted ballots and the invalid ballots shall be logged and sealed. The ballots shall be stored in containers or cabinets which shall be sealed. The storage of the ballots and sealing of the cabinets shall be done in the presence of not less than two representatives who are not of the same political party or official observers.[Eff JUL 26 2020] (Auth: HRS §§ 11-4, 16-46, 52 USC § 21081) (Imp: HRS §§ 11-108, 11-154, 16-2, 16-41 through 16-46, 52 USC § 21081)