Federal voter--Designation--Ballot

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SD Code › Title 12 › Chapter 4 › Section 12-4-1.3

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A county auditor must designate an individual as a federal voter if:

(1) At the time the individual applies to register as a voter or to vote by absentee ballot, the individual provides only the address of a commercial mail receiving agency, mail forwarding service, or other post office box as the address where the individual is a resident, without providing a description of the location of the individual's habitation; or

(2) The individual applies to register as a voter and does not provide any documentation demonstrating that the individual is a United States citizen, provided that the individual is not already registered as a voter of this state.

The county auditor shall prepare a ballot that lists only the names of the candidates for United States senator, United States representative, and president and vice president of the United States, as certified by the secretary of state pursuant to § 12-8-8 , and the names of the presidential electors designated for each candidate. The county auditor or member of the precinct election board shall provide the ballot to any individual who has been designated as a federal voter.

For the purposes of this section, "federal voter" means an individual who is eligible to vote in elections for presidential electors, United States senator, or United States representative at a primary, runoff, special, or general election.

Source: SL 2025, ch 58, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2026; SL 2026, ch 63, § 2, eff. Mar. 26, 2026.

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