Sec. 9.5. (a) This section applies to counting votes cast on ballot cards.

     (b) This subsection applies to a ballot card that:

(1) has been cast in a precinct whose votes are being recounted by a local recount commission or the state recount commission;

(2) is damaged or defective so that it cannot properly be counted by automated tabulating machines; and

(3) cannot be counted for the office subject to the recount due to the damage or defect.

The ballot card shall be remade only if the conditions in subdivisions (1) through (3) exist.

As added by P.L.3-1987, SEC.335. Amended by P.L.58-2005, SEC.26; P.L.221-2005, SEC.100.