Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5517 – File of absentee voters
(a) The Department shall maintain records providing for the prevention of fraud and to make possible the tracing and detection of any attempt to do so. Such records shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following entries:
(1) The name of elector;
(2) The address at which elector is registered;
(3) The address where ballot is to be mailed;
(4) The date the statement is received by the Department;
(5) The elector’s election and representative district;
(6) The ballot envelope identification number;
(7) The date the ballot is mailed or delivered to the elector; and
(8) The date the ballot is returned.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5517
- 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
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- 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
(b) The Department shall compile from its files a list of names and addresses of all applicants for absentee ballots, and shall send current and complete copies thereof without cost to all political parties with candidates on the ballot in the forthcoming election. Such lists shall be provided no later than 2 weeks prior to the date of the election and copies of the lists must be mailed on the same date to the respective chairs of each political party involved in the election. Comparable information from the file shall also be made available to representatives of all political parties at each office of the Department during the remaining 2 weeks before the election, such information to be recorded by such representatives from the daily records of the Department with the cooperation and assistance of the employees thereof.
44 Del. Laws, c. 118, § ?16; 45 Del. Laws, c. 155, § ?13; 47 Del. Laws, c. 316, § ?3; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?5522; 57 Del. Laws, c. 181, § ?76; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?136; 68 Del. Laws, c. 301, § ?16; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?93; 81 Del. Laws, c. 106, § 8;