After all certificates have been executed, the election board shall place the bundles of tabulated paper ballots in the ballot box and the ballot box shall be closed and locked. History: 1953 Comp., § 3-12-101, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 222, § 70; 1987, ch. 249, § 42; 2009, ch. 150, § 30; 2019, ch. 212, § 119.