Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 2005 – Request for a voter registration application
(a) Any citizen may apply in writing, in person or by telephone on any regular business day, except during the period beginning 20 days before each general election through election day, to the Department for a voter registration application to be provided by the Department to the requestor or to a member of the citizen’s immediate family.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 2005
- 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
- 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
- Registration record: means a voter's registration record maintained in the State's Election Management System, the list or file of registered voters sent to each election district for use by election officers on the day of the election, and until determined obsolete, it also applies to a voter's record maintained in the county master file. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
(b) In connection with any request under this section, the Department shall:
(1) Permit the person to complete the application for that person’s own self in the office or mail the application for that individual to that individual within 3 business days of the request.
(2) Mail the voter registration application to a member of the requestor’s immediate family within 3 business days of the request.
(c) Applications requested in accordance with this section may be for the purposes of registering to vote, transferring the voter’s address, changing the voter’s name on the voter’s voter registration record and/or changing a voter’s political party affiliation.
74 Del. Laws, c. 411, § ?3; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?29;