Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5521 – Federal write-in absentee ballot; acceptance; combined request for …
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, an elector who qualifies under any of the reasons set forth in § 5502(7) of this title may:
(1) Use the federal write-in absentee ballot (FWAB) in any election for local, state, or federal offices in this State;
(2) Write on the FWAB the name of a specific candidate for whom the elector wants to vote, the name of the political party of a candidate for a specific office for whom the elector wants to vote, or the name of the political party of all candidates for all offices for whom the elector wants to vote;
(3) Use the FWAB transmission envelope as a registration request simultaneously with the submission of the FWAB if:
a. The voter is otherwise eligible to vote by absentee ballot in this State; and
b. The completed ballot is received no later than the 3rd Monday prior to the date of the election.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5521
- Ballot: means those portions of cardboard, paper or other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting machine or to be used for absentee voting in order to list the names of the offices to be voted for, the name of each candidate and the designation of the party by which the candidate is nominated, a space for the voter to write in the name of any candidate of that voter's choice for any office, and the statement of any question submitted with provision for a "yes" or "no" vote. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- political party: means any political organization which elects a state committee and officers of a state committee, by a state convention composed of delegates elected from each representative district in which the party has registered members, and which nominates candidates for electors of President and Vice-President, or nominates candidates for offices to be decided at the general election. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) [Repealed.]
(c) A person eligible to vote by FWAB may return the ballot, eligibility information and signed oath by electronic transmission. Any person returning the FWAB electronically is deemed to have acknowledged that there may be situations where the secrecy of that person’s ballot cannot be guaranteed.
75 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 134, § ?3; 77 Del. Laws, c. 227, § ?2; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?94;