Manner of making application; furnished forms; fax and electronic mail applications

Sec. 4. (a) Applications may be made on application forms approved by the election division by any of the following means:

(1) In person.

(2) By fax transmission.

(3) By mail (including United States mail or bonded courier).

(4) By electronic mail with a digital image of the application and signature of the applicant.

(b) Application forms shall:

(1) be furnished to a central committee of the county at the request of the central committee;

(2) be:

(A) mailed;

(B) transmitted by fax; or

(C) transmitted by electronic mail with a digital image of the application;

upon request, to a voter; and

(3) be delivered to a voter in person who applies at the circuit court clerk's office.

(c) A county election board shall accept an application for an absentee ballot transmitted by fax even though the application is delivered to the county election board by a person other than the person submitting the application.

(d) When an application is received under subsection (a)(4), the circuit court clerk's office (or, in a county for which a board of elections and registration is established, the office of the board of elections and registration) shall send an electronic mail receipt acknowledging receipt of the voter's application.

[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-22-3 part.]

As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.3-1987, SEC.225; P.L.5-1989, SEC.51; P.L.10-1989, SEC.6; P.L.8-1992, SEC.18; P.L.3-1993, SEC.125; P.L.2-1996, SEC.141; P.L.126-2002, SEC.50; P.L.120-2009, SEC.6; P.L.66-2010, SEC.11; P.L.219-2013, SEC.34; P.L.216-2015, SEC.20; P.L.169-2015, SEC.98; P.L.170-2019, SEC.10.