Delaware Code
Chapter 56A. Voting by mail ballot [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6]
§ 5612A. Preparing mail ballots for tabulation [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

(a) The Department may open ballot envelopes in public meetings beginning 30 days before the day of the election in order to prepare them for tabulation. The Department shall notify each party on the ballot that they may have challengers at the meetings during which the Department opens the ballot envelopes. The challengers may challenge ballots as provided elsewhere in this title.
(b) The Department shall appoint teams composed of an equal number of Democrats and Republicans to open and duplicate ballots.
(c) The teams shall open ballots by election district, check them off against the list under § 5618A(b)(1) of this title, duplicate ballots that the team determines that the tabulating equipment cannot read and then secure the opened and duplicated ballots along with the envelopes in a carrier envelope. The teams shall record the number of the carrier envelope and the election district number on a log sheet that it shall also secure in the same carrier envelope.
(d) Teams shall duplicate ballots by marking them according to the voter's intent as shown on the ballot marked by the voter. If a team cannot determine a voter's intent, they shall consult the county director and county deputy director for advice and guidance.
(e) When duplicating ballots, the teams shall assign the same unique identifier to the ballot that they duplicate and the duplicated ballot. After the team has duplicated ballots for an election district, the team shall put the ballots that the team duplicated in a separate envelope and put it in the carrier envelope for the election district and the team shall put the duplicated ballots with the ballots that the Department shall tabulate on the day of the election.
(f) The Department shall secure the carrier envelopes in locked cabinets until opened in a subsequent public meeting to insert additional ballots or to tabulate the ballots on the day of the election.

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Delaware Code

Title 15 - Elections

Chapter 56A. Voting by mail ballot [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6]

§ 5602A. Applicability [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5603A. Voting by mail ballot [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5604A. Process for voting by mail ballot [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5605A. Distribution of ballots, envelopes, and instructions [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5606A. Requirements for ballot envelope; numbering and coding; voter identification label; statement of eligibility [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5607A. Instructions for completing and returning a mail ballot [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5608A. Voting procedure; execution of statement; return of ballot [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5609A. Time limit for return of ballot; late ballots [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5610A. Procedure on receipt of ballot envelope by Department [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5611A. Counting procedure for ballot envelopes [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5612A. Preparing mail ballots for tabulation [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5613A. Carrier envelope specifications; carrier envelopes as ballot boxes [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5614A. Envelopes in general; approval by Attorney General [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5615A. Challenges [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5616A. Rejected ballots [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5617A. Validity of a voter's mail ballot for wrong district [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5618A. Required records [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5619A. Duties of Department of Elections; political balance of election judges; security [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5620A. Logic and accuracy testing of mail ballot tabulating equipment; authority of the State Election Commissioner [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].

§ 5621A. System for voters to determine status of their mail ballots [For application of this chapter, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 6].