(a) The Recorder shall, at least three days prior to every City election procure from the Clerk of the County Court the voting registration records for each municipal precinct necessary for conducting the election.
(b) The Recorder shall designate one or more of the Commissioners of Election for the precincts to attend at the office of the Recorder at lest three days before the election to receive the ballots, ballot boxes, poll books, registration records and forms and other supplies necessary for the conducting of the election, which ballots shall be delivered to the Commissioners in sealed packages.
(c) It shall be the duty of the Election Commissioners to receive such records, ballots and supplies and deliver the same with the seal of all sealed packages unbroken at the election precinct in time to open the election. The Recorder shall take a receipt for such material and shall file it in his office.
(d) If, by any accident or casualty, the ballots or ballot boxes delivered to a Commissioner of Elections, or to any messenger, shall be lost or destroyed, it shall be the duty of such commissioner or messenger to report the loss forthwith to the Recorder, and make affidavit of the circumstances of the loss; whereupon such Recorder shall at once send a new supply by special messenger to said precinct.
(1960 Code 3-114)