Oklahoma Regulations § 230:15-9-3.1 Processing voter registration and absentee ballot requests from Address Confidentiality Program participants at the State Election Board

Regulation Text

(a) Persons who are certified participants in the Address Confidentiality Program administered by the office of the Oklahoma Attorney General and who are registered voters must cancel their existing voter registrations and apply to the State Election Board for new registration as ACP voters. The voter registration information of ACP voters shall be maintained in the office of the State Election Board by a designated employee of the State Election Board and shall not be released to any person for any purpose except by court order. The name, address, and precinct number of an ACP voter shall not be entered in MESA and shall not appear on any report or list produced by the State or the County Election Board.

(b) ACP participants who become registered as ACP voters may vote only by mail absentee ballot. The absentee ballots shall be mailed by the appropriate County Election Board Secretary to the ACP address. An ACP participant's voter registration application shall be considered to be an application for mail absentee ballots for all elections in which the voter is eligible to vote and shall be valid for up to four years from the date it is received by the State Election Board.

(c) The Secretary of the State Election Board shall provide a form to be used by ACP participants to request an ACP Voter Registration Packet. The ACP Voter Registration Packet shall include the following items.

(1) ACP Voter Registration Instructions

(2) Request to Cancel Voter Registration form

(3) ACP Oklahoma Voter Registration Application form

(4) ACP Voter Registration Statement of Understanding form

(5) Self-addressed return envelope stamped "ACP"

(d) The Secretary of the State Election Board shall designate an employee of the State Election Board to be responsible for receiving and processing voter registration and absentee ballot requests from ACP participants. The designated employee shall prepare and mail an ACP Voter Registration Packet in response to requests received from certified ACP participants. Upon receipt of a completed ACP Voter Registration Packet at the State Election Board office, the following procedure shall be observed.

(1) All mail received at the State Election Board office with an ACP stamp shall be separated from other agency mail and delivered unopened to the designated employee.

(2) The employee shall open the ACP envelope and remove the contents. The items in the returned packet shall be processed as follows.

(A) Send the Request to Cancel Voter Registration form to the appropriate County Election Board to be processed.

(B) Access the Street Guide to determine the voter's correct precinct number and district information. Record precinct and districts on the ACP Oklahoma Voter Registration Application form.

(D) Fill out an ACP Absentee Ballot Application form. Enter the voter's name, ACP address, date of birth, precinct number, school district/board district, and municipality/ward, if applicable.

(E) Mail the ACP Absentee Ballot Application form, an ACP Voter History form, and a copy of the ACP Instructions for County Election Board to the Secretary of the appropriate County Election Board.

(3) The employee shall file the ACP Oklahoma Voter Registration Form, the Statement of Understanding, the copy of the voter's identification as described in (2)(C), and a copy of the ACP Absentee Ballot Application form. The file containing these materials shall be locked.

Source

Added at 20 Ok Reg 1087, eff 7-1-03; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 2525, eff 7-15-09; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 1132, eff 7-1-11

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