(1) Upon completion of the counting of votes, the counting board shall place all voted ballots in the ballots-cast container. Rejected ballots shall be placed in the envelope designated Rejected Ballots, and the envelope shall be sealed and placed in the ballots-cast container with the voted ballots. The ballots-cast container shall then be sealed.
(2) The precinct list of registered voters and the official summary of votes cast number one shall be sealed in an envelope designated for such purpose. The precinct sign-in register and the official summary of votes cast number two shall be sealed in an envelope designated for such purpose and shall be subject to inspection by any registered voter who may wish to examine them after the election.
(3) The counting board shall prepare another summary of votes cast from the official summary showing the total number of votes cast for each candidate and the office for which he or she was a candidate and the total number of votes cast for and against each measure submitted at the election. The summary of votes cast shall be signed and attested to by the members of the counting board and sealed in a separate envelope designated for such purpose to be returned to the election commissioner or county clerk with other election materials. The election commissioner or county clerk shall open such envelope and release unofficial returns from the summary.
(4) In counties using voting machines, the voting machines shall be closed, locked, and sealed after the votes are recorded in accordance with the instructions furnished by the election commissioner or county clerk for a period of at least thirty days, except that they may be opened and unlocked and the seals thereon broken when one election follows another within such a short time as to require it and upon the order of the district court for such county.