[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 7CFR717.20]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 717--HOLDING OF REFERENDA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 717.20  Receiving and tabulating voted ballots.

    Ballots received at the county FSA office during the referendum 
period shall be placed immediately in a ballot box provided by the 
county executive director and so arranged that ballots cannot be read or 
removed without breaking the seal on the container. Voted ballots 
received by the county committee of the county in which the voter is 
eligible to vote during the period established for holding a particular 
referendum, shall be tabulated by the county committee. A ballot shall 
be considered to have been received during the referendum period if (a) 
in the case of a ballot delivered to the county committee, it was 
received in the office prior to the close of the work day on the final 
day of the referendum period, or (b) in the case of a mailed ballot, it 
was postmarked not later than midnight of the final day of the 
referendum period and was received in the county office prior to the 
start of canvassing the ballots. However, no such ballot shall be 
counted unless the voter signs the certification or his mark is 
witnessed on the returned envelope, and it is determined that he is 
eligible to vote in the particular referendum.

(Secs. 312, 317, 336, 343, 344, 354, 358, 375, 52 Stat. 46, as amended, 
79 Stat. 66, 52 Stat. 55, as amended, 56, as amended, 79 Stat. 1197, 52 
Stat. 61, as amended, 55 Stat. 88, as amended, 52 Stat. 66, as amended; 
7 U.S.C. 1312, 1314c, 1336, 1343, 1344b, 1354, 1356, 1375)

[33 FR 18345, Dec. 11, 1968, as amended by Amdt. 4, 49 FR 24371, June 
13, 1984]

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