Section 3-1200. BALLOT FORM AND CONTENT

 

1200.1The Board shall provide official ballots to absentee voters and to voters on Election Day and at early voting centers to be used by the voter for indicating candidate or ballot measure preference in any contest.

 

1200.2Official election ballots shall list: 

 

(a)  Any offices to be filled and candidates for nomination or election;

 

(b)  The serial number, short title, and summary statement of each proposed initiative, referendum or Charter amendment, if any; and

 

(c)  Each proposed recall measure, if any.

 

1200.3Official ballots for primary elections shall be separate and color-coded for each political party qualified to participate in the election.

 

1200.4 Official ballots for qualified federal electors shall list only the offices of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States and Delegate to the United States House of Representatives and the candidates for each office, and shall be provided in any primary, general or special election in which those offices are nominated or elected.  Federal Ballots shall be restricted to qualified federal electors as defined in Chapter 5.

 

1200.5Initiative, referendum and recall measures and proposed Charter amendments may appear on a separate ballot in any election.

 

1200.6Candidates who are properly registered as a slate shall appear individually in each contest denoting parenthetically the name of the slate with which the candidate is registered. 

 

 

authority

The District of Columbia Election Code of 1955, as amended, approved August 12, 1955 (69 Stat. 699; D.C. Official Code § 1-1001.05(a)(14)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 625 (January 24, 2014).