Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5508 – Time limit for return of ballot; late ballots
(a) The Department shall endorse the date and time of receipt on the ballot envelope of each absentee ballot received thereby.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5508
- 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
- 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
(b) For an absentee ballot to be counted under this chapter, an elector voting by absentee ballot shall return the elector marked ballot to the Department office of the county in which the voter resides before the polls close on the day of the election.
(c) The Department shall retain unopened any ballot envelope it receives after the polls close on the day of the election until the last day of February next after the election, or longer if directed by proper authority or required to do so by federal law.
44 Del. Laws, c. 118, § ?11; 45 Del. Laws, c. 155, § ?10; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?5511; 49 Del. Laws, c. 278, § ?8; 50 Del. Laws, c. 173, § ?3; 52 Del. Laws, c. 92, §§ ?1, 2; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?129; 68 Del. Laws, c. 301, § ?6; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 427, § ?7; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?89; 82 Del. Laws, c. 170, § 45;