Voting instructions

(1) Each election officer shall: (a) print instructions for voters; (b) ensure that the instructions are printed in English, and any other language required under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, in large clear type; and (c) ensure that the instructions inform voters: (i) about how to obtain, and how to return, ballots for voting; (ii) about special political party affiliation requirements for voting in a regular primary election or presidential primary election; (iii) about how to prepare ballots cast at a polling place for deposit in the ballot box; (iv) about how to prepare a mailed ballot for return; (v) about how to record write-in votes; (vi) about how to obtain a new ballot in the place of one spoiled by accident or mistake; (vii) about how to obtain assistance in marking ballots; (viii) about obtaining a new ballot if the voter's ballot is defaced; (ix) that identification marks or the spoiling or defacing of a ballot will make it invalid; (x) about how to obtain and vote a provisional ballot; (xi) about whom to contact to report election fraud; (xii) about applicable federal and state laws regarding: (A) voting rights and the appropriate official to contact if the voter alleges that the voter's rights have been violated; and (B) prohibitions on acts of fraud and misrepresentation; (xiii) about procedures governing mail-in registrants and first-time voters; and (xiv) about the date of the election and the hours that the polls are open on election day. (2) Each election officer shall: (a) provide the election judges of each voting precinct with sufficient instruction cards to instruct voters in the preparation of the voters' ballots; and (b) direct the election judges to post: (i) general voting instructions in each voting booth; (ii) at least three instruction cards at other locations in the polling place; and (iii) at least one sample ballot at the polling place.