Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 1705 – Cancellation of registration of persons reported as deceased
(a) The State‘s Office of Vital Statistics shall send each month to the Department and to the State Election Commissioner a complete and accurate file or list of each person 16 years of age or older who has been reported to have died within the State since the previous report. The file or list shall contain, as a minimum: the decedent‘s name, Social Security number, residence at time of death, date of birth, date of death, and death certificate number.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 1705
- Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Department: means the State Department of Elections, consisting of the State Board of Elections and such staff as the Board shall appoint under this title, but shall not include the State Election Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- 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
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) The State’s Office of Vital Statistics shall in January and July of each year send a file or list to the Department and the State Election Commissioner containing the name, Social Security number, residence at time of death, state where died, date of birth, date of death, and death certificate number for each Delaware citizen 16 years or age or older reported to that office as having died in another state or country. Where complete data about a decedent is not available, the Office of Vital Statistics shall provide as much information as is available in the file or on the list.
(c) Upon receipt of a file or list from the Office of Vital Statistics, the Department shall cancel the registration of each registered voter whose name is on the list.
(d) The Department may cancel the registration of a person upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate or a written notice from the decedent’s spouse, adult child, sibling or parent.
(e) The Department may use an obituary from a Delaware newspaper as authority to cancel the registration of a registered voter who died in another state or country.
45 Del. Laws, c. 144, § ?31; 45 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?34; 45 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?34; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?1705; 49 Del. Laws, c. 4, § ?5; 50 Del. Laws, c. 169, § ?10; 52 Del. Laws, c. 221, § ?3; 57 Del. Laws, c. 181, § ?26; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?26; 67 Del. Laws, c. 354, § ?6; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 232, § ?14; 77 Del. Laws, c. 227, §§ ?2, 21; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?21;