13-13-225. Special absentee election boards -- members -- appointment.
13-13-225. Special absentee election boards -- members -- appointment. (1) The election administrator shall designate and appoint a number of special absentee election boards as needed to serve in various places to deliver ballots to electors who are entitled to vote by absentee ballot as provided in 13-13-229.
(2) In a partisan election, each special absentee election board must consist of two members, one from each of the two political parties receiving the highest number of votes in the state during the last preceding general election. Board members shall reside in the county in which they serve.
(3) A member of a special absentee election board may not be a candidate or a spouse, ascendant, descendant, brother, or sister of a candidate or of a candidate's spouse or the spouse of any one of these if the candidate's name appears on a ballot in the county.
History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 239, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 242, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 151, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 48, Ch. 56, L. 2009.