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Okla. Stat. tit. 26, § 26-7-104: Hours for voting - Conformity with federal law

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  1. OK Code
  2. Title 26

A. At every Primary, Runoff Primary and General Election and

any other election conducted by a county election board, each

polling place in the state shall open at 7:00 a.m. and shall remain

open continuously until 7:00 p.m., and every registered voter of a

precinct who presents himself or herself between said hours shall be

entitled to vote, as provided by law, provided further, all

qualified voters who are in line waiting to vote at 7:00 p.m. shall

be allowed to vote.

B. 1. A registered voter wishing to vote on election day shall

appear at the polling place for his or her assigned precinct.

2. Neither the State Election Board nor any county election

board shall utilize vote centers for voting on election day. For

the purposes of this section, "vote center" means a place where any

voter in the entire jurisdiction can vote on election day,

regardless of the voter's precinct assignment. Provided, an

exception to this requirement may be authorized for a county

election board by the Secretary of the State Election Board in the

event of an emergency as described in Section 22-101 of this title.

The emergency use of a countywide vote center must be limited to the

precincts directly impacted by the emergency.

3. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the use of

subprecincts as described in Section 3-119 of this title, nor shall

it prohibit the assignment of precinct officials to serve more than

one precinct, if authorized by law, if the precincts share the same

election day polling place.

C. If any provision of federal law specifies hours for voting

in federal elections, the Secretary of the State Election Board

shall direct the county election boards to allow voting in all

elections held on the same day as such federal elections during the

hours specified by federal law.

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