§ 2.28.040. Absentee ballot.  


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  • A.

    Before delivering any ballot the clerk shall satisfy himself/herself of the applicant's right to vote in the subject election and may require the applicant to comply with the challenged ballot procedure. Thereafter the clerk shall deliver to the applicant elector, in the manner requested by applicant on the form, an official ballot to be voted on by the elector. The clerk shall enter on the application the number of the ballot issued and the date of delivery or mailing. Before the election, the clerk shall furnish to the election judge or judges of each district or precinct a list of voters of the precinct who have been issued absentee ballots. When the canvass board meets, the clerk shall furnish to it all absentee ballots applications bearing the aforesaid notations relative to issuance of ballots.

    B.

    The city clerk will fold the ballot as specified in this title for other official ballots, and enclose the same in an official envelope, unsealed, to be furnished by him/her, which envelope shall bear on its face the name, official title and post office address of the city clerk, and on the other side a printed statement substantially as follows:

    I am a duly qualified elector of the City of Hoonah, Alaska, in compliance with Municipal Code Section 2.20.020. My personal attendance in said City of Hoonah on the _____ day of ________, 20___, the date of the election, is prevented.

    Dated ________, 20___.

    The blanks in the statement shall be filled out by the city clerk to the extent necessary to identify the election at which the ballot is proposed to be cast.

    C.

    The clerk shall also personally or by separate notation or memorandum or by notation printed upon the back of the official envelope advise the absentee voter that a new ballot will be furnished upon request if time permits, if a voter loses, improperly marks or otherwise damages a ballot, but replacement ballots may be requested no more than three times.

    D.

    On marking his/her absentee ballot, the voter shall refold same as previously folded and shall enclose it in the plain envelope marked "ballot envelope" and thereafter enclose the ballot envelope in the official envelope, seal the envelope securely and deliver it to the officer who issued the absentee ballot.

    E.

    On receipt of such absent voter's ballot the city clerk shall forthwith enclose the same unopened, together with the application upon which such ballot was issued, in a plain envelope, endorsed with his/her name and his/her official title, and the words "absent voter's ballots, to be opened only at the polls on election day while said polls are open." The city clerk shall hold the same until the delivery of the official ballots to the judges of election and shall deliver such absent voters' ballots to the election judges. Absentee ballots not personally delivered by the clerk at least by four-thirty p.m. of the day preceding the election, or received by the clerk by mail prior to eight p.m. of the day of the subject election shall not be counted.

    F.

    Between the opening and closing of the polls on election day, the judges shall remove the absentee voters' official envelopes from the plain envelope marked "absent voters' ballots, to be opened only at the polls on election day while said polls are open" announce the absent voter's name and the voter has theretofore not voted at the election, they shall open the official envelope and remove the ballot envelope without destroying the endorsements on the envelope and open the ballot envelope without permitting the ballot to be unfolded, and deposit the same in the proper ballot box. (Amended during 2002 codification; prior code § 36.35.040)

(Ord. No. 12-02-02, § 3, 3-13-2012)