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Delaware Statutes § 7574 Requirements for ballot envelope; numbering and coding; voter identification label; affidavit of eligibility

⤴ Up to Subchapter V: Absentee Voting in Municipal Elections Except for the City of Wilmington

Statute Text

(a) The municipality shall provide to each elector to whom it sends an absentee ballot an envelope which shall be:
(1) A color other than white;
(2) Large enough to hold a completed ballot; and
(3) Designed to protect its contents from tampering, removal or substitution without detection.
(b) Upon each envelope provided pursuant to this section shall appear:
(1) The words "BALLOT ENVELOPE";
(2) An alpha-numeric symbol and/or barcode for use in accounting for the absentee ballot;
(3) Identification information for the elector receiving the absentee ballot, including: the name of the municipality where the elector is qualified to vote; the elector's name; the elector's mailing address; the address within the municipality that establishes the elector's eligibility to vote if different from the elector's mailing address; and such other information as the municipality may require; and
(4) The following oath:
"I do solemnly swear (affirm) that to the best of my knowledge I am eligible
to vote in this municipal election and that the address that appears on the
label on this envelope is the address at which I am qualified to vote in this
municipal election. I also do solemnly swear (affirm) under penalty of perjury
that I have not received or accepted, or offered to receive or accept, any
money or other item of value as compensation, inducement or reward for the
giving or withholding of a vote at this municipal election, nor that I am
acting under duress or threat of duress or harm."
(5) The voter's signature.

History

76 Del. Laws, c. 52 , § 2 .;

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