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Delaware Statutes § 2051 Appointment of voter registration coordinator - coordination among voter registration agencies, department of elections and department of technology and information

⤴ Up to Subchapter VII: Agency Based Registration

Statute Text

(a) The State Election Commissioner shall be the statewide coordinator for agency based registration.
(b) Each of the voter registration agencies identified in this subchapter shall appoint an existing employee to implement and oversee the training necessary to provide nonpartisan voter registration, and to collect and enter on each registration application all information required to properly identify the applicant, including a complete location of residence. The employee designated to assist registrants at each voter registration agency shall further ensure that each voter registration application to be transmitted to the appropriate Department of Elections contains both the correct identification of the voter registration agency office, the origin and signature of the employee of the voter registration agency office who prepared or assisted in preparing the application and who witnessed the applicant's signature.
(c) The statewide coordinator shall ensure that all applicable intake and application forms used by each agency shall be the same forms used by the Department of Elections [in the respective counties] .
(d) The statewide coordinator shall provide properly trained personnel to transmit a sufficient number of appropriate applications to each voter registration agency and to transmit completed voter registration applications to the Department of Elections within 3 business days after completion to the Department of Elections [located in the applicant's county of residence] . This requirement may be satisfied by putting the completed applications into the State mail within 3 business days.
(e) The statewide coordinator shall provide procedural assistance to each registration agency for appropriate training of the employee designated to assist in voter registration.
(f) The statewide coordinator shall institute appropriate procedures to facilitate implementation of the provisions of this subchapter and to ensure coordination of those procedures among the Department of Elections [located in each county] , the Department of Technology and Information and the voter registration agencies.

History

Amended by Laws 2013 , ch. 275 , s 42 , eff. 7/1/2015 .

69 Del. Laws, c. 76, §1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 274 , § 5 ; 74 Del. Laws, c. 128, §§ 2, 3.;

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