Delaware Code
Chapter 55. ABSENTEE VOTING
§ 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.
(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.

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Delaware Code

Title 15 - Elections

Chapter 55. ABSENTEE VOTING

§ 5501. Purpose of chapter; scope.

§ 5502. Persons eligible to vote by absentee ballot.

§ 5503. Request for ballot; statements for absentee ballots; delivery of absentee ballots.

§ 5504. Distribution of ballots, envelopes, and instructions; envelope specifications; pre-paid postage.

§ 5505. Requirements for ballot envelope; numbering and coding; voter identification label; statement of eligibility.

§ 5506. Instructions for completing absentee ballots.

§ 5507. Voting procedure; execution of statement; return of ballot.

§ 5508. Time limit for return of ballot; late ballots.

§ 5509. Procedure on receipt of ballot envelope by Department.

§ 5510. Counting procedure for absentee ballots.

§ 5510A. Preparing absentee ballots for tabulation.

§ 5511. Carrier envelope specifications; carrier envelopes as ballot boxes.

§ 5512. Envelopes in general; approval by Attorney General.

§ 5513. Challenges.

§ 5514. Rejected ballots.

§ 5515. Validity of absentee voter's ballot for wrong district.

§ 5517. File of absentee voters.

§ 5518. Members of the armed forces and certain other electors; 1 absentee request to cover all elections; federal post card application (FPCA); electronic transmission of balloting materials.

§ 5520. Special write-in absentee ballot; procedures; qualifications.

§ 5521. Federal write-in absentee ballot; acceptance; combined request for registration and ballot submission.

§ 5522. Duties of Department of Elections; political balance of absentee judges; security.

§ 5523. Logic and accuracy testing of absentee ballot tabulating equipment; authority of the State Election Commissioner.

§ 5524. Emergency authority for the State Election Commissioner.

§ 5525. Electronic delivery of absentee ballots.

§ 5526. System for voters to determine status of their absentee ballots.

§ 5527. Authority to implement provisions of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voters Act.