The ballot box shall then be opened and the ballots taken out, sorted so that all ballots on certain candidacies and issues are separately identified, and counted by the members of the counting board unopened, except to ascertain if each ballot is single.
S.D. Admin. R. 5:02:16:06
General Authority: SDCL 12-1-9(4), 12-20-52.
Law Implemented: SDCL 12-20-2.