Title 3, TITLE 3. ELECTIONS

Sec. 3. "Ballot" means: (1) the paper ballot prepared, printed, and supplied for use at an election; (2) the electronic display prepared, printed, and supplied for use on the front of an electronic voting system; or (3) the ballot card prepared, printed, and supplied for use in a…

Sec. 31. (a) "Marking device" means: (1) a pencil or pen for marking a paper ballot or ballot card; or (2) an approved device that automatically: (A) registers the voter's vote on an electronic voting system; or (B) produces a marked optical scan ballot indicating the choices of …

Sec. 31.5. "Member of the military or public safety officer" has the meaning set forth in IC 10-14-2-5. As added by P.L.120-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 31.7. "Modification", for a certified voting system, refers to a change: (1) in the software or firmware of the voting system; or (2) to the hardware of the voting system that: (A) materially alters the system's reliability, functionality, capacity, or operation; or (B) has …

Sec. 32. "Municipality" means a city or town. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-1-2 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.10. Repealed by P.L.176-1999, SEC.132.

Sec. 32.7. "Nomination date" refers to the following: (1) For candidates nominated in a primary election, the date of the primary election. (2) For candidates nominated in a convention, the date the convention is scheduled to be called to order, according to the call of the conve…

Sec. 33. "Nominee" means a candidate: (1) nominated by a political party at a primary election or convention under this title as the party's candidate for an elected office in a general, municipal, or special election; or (2) nominated by petition for an elected office. [1986 Rec…

Sec. 33.5. "NVRA" refers to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20501 through 52 U.S.C. 20511). As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.128-2015, SEC.2.

Sec. 33.7. "NVRA official" refers to the designee under IC 3-7-11-1. As added by P.L.8-1995, SEC.5.

Sec. 33.8. "Office" refers to the office of census data established by IC 2-5-1.1-12.2. As added by P.L.212-2001, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.1-2002, SEC.7.

Sec. 33.9. (a) "Optical scan ballot" means a card or another paper on which votes are: (1) recorded by marking the card with a marking device; and (2) tabulated by an optical system that reads the marks on the card or paper. (b) "Optical scan voting system" means a voting system …

Sec. 34. "Organization" means a person that is not an individual. The term includes a business firm or corporation, a limited liability company, a labor organization, a religious organization, a political club, a trustee, a receiver, or any other type of association or group of i…

Sec. 34.5. "Overseas voter" refers to any of the following: (1) An absent uniformed services voter who, by reason of active duty or service, is absent from the United States on the date of the election involved. (2) A person who resides outside the United States and is qualified …

Sec. 34.7. (a) "Paper ballot" refers to a ballot that is: (1) marked by a voter using a pen or pencil; and (2) designed to be counted by hand and not counted on an automatic tabulating machine. (b) "Paper ballot" does not include a ballot card. As added by P.L.58-2005, SEC.2.…

[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-23-2 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.3-1987, SEC.7. Repealed by P.L.194-2013, SEC.1.

Sec. 36. "Person" means an individual or an organization. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-4-1-15 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 37. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), "political action committee" means an organization located within or outside Indiana that satisfies all of the following: (1) The organization proposes to influence: (A) the election of a candidate for state, legislative, local, …

Sec. 38. "Political subdivision" means a county, city, town, township, school corporation, public library, local housing authority, fire protection district, public transportation corporation, local building authority, local hospital authority or corporation, local airport author…

Sec. 39. "Polls" means the room in a structure where the voters of a precinct vote by casting ballots on election day. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-1-2 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.3-1987, SEC.9; P.L.169-2015, SEC.2.

Sec. 4. "Ballot card" refers to an optical scan ballot. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-2-4-2(b) part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.239-2001, SEC.1; P.L.221-2005, SEC.2.

Sec. 4.5. "Ballot card voting system" refers to an optical scan voting system. As added by P.L.239-2001, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.221-2005, SEC.3.

Sec. 40. "Precinct" means a subdivision of a county or township established for election purposes. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citations: 3-1-1-2 part; 3-1-8-1 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 40.1. "Precinct election officer" means a person appointed to serve in a precinct as one (1) of the following: (1) Inspector. (2) Judge. (3) Poll clerk. (4) Assistant poll clerk. (5) Election sheriff. As added by P.L.3-1987, SEC.10.

Sec. 40.3. (a) "Presidential elector" refers to an elector for President and Vice President of the United States as provided in Article 2, Section 1, clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States and Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United Stat…

Sec. 40.5. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), "proof of identification" refers to a document that satisfies all the following: (1) The document shows the name of the individual to whom the document was issued, and the name conforms to the name in the individual's voter reg…

Sec. 40.6. "Provisional ballot" refers to a ballot cast in accordance with the provisions of IC 3-11.7. As added by P.L.126-2002, SEC.5.

Sec. 40.7. "Provisional voter" refers to an individual who is entitled to cast a provisional ballot under IC 3-11.7. As added by P.L.126-2002, SEC.6.

Sec. 41. "Public question" means a constitutional amendment, proposition, or other issue submitted to the electorate at an election. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-1-2 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

As added by P.L.239-2001, SEC.4. Repealed by P.L.221-2005, SEC.145.

As added by P.L.239-2001, SEC.5. Repealed by P.L.221-2005, SEC.145.

Sec. 41.7. "Registration agency" refers to any of the following: (1) The bureau of motor vehicles. (2) Any other agency at which individuals may register to vote under IC 3-7. As added by P.L.126-2002, SEC.7.

Sec. 42. "Regular party committee" means: (1) a central committee; or (2) a national committee of a political party. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citations: 3-4-1-14 part; 3-4-1-17 part; 3-4-1-17.5 part; 3-4-1-20 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.3-1995, SEC.6.…

Sec. 42.5. "Residence" means the place: (1) where a person has the person's true, fixed, and permanent home and principal establishment; and (2) to which the person has, whenever absent, the intention of returning. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.7.

[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-1-2 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1. Repealed by P.L.3-1987, SEC.570.

Sec. 44. "School board" means the fiscal body of a school corporation. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-4-8-1 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 45. "School board office" refers to an elected position on the school board of a school corporation. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-4-8-1 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 46. "School corporation" refers to a public school corporation established under IC 20. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-4-8-1 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 47. "School district" means the taxing district of a school corporation. [1986 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 47.5. "Signing the poll list" means: (1) a voter writing the voter's name on the certified list of registered voters for the precinct prepared in accordance with IC 3-7-29-1; or (2) a voter writing the voter's name on an electronic poll book using an electronic signature pad…

Sec. 48. "State office" refers to the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of appeals, and judge of the tax court. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-4-1-19 pa…

Sec. 48.5. "Testing authority" means an independent test authority or independent laboratory: (1) as described in the Voting System Standards issued by the Federal Election Commission on April 30, 2002; or (2) accredited under Section 231 of HAVA (52 U.S.C. 20971). As added by P.…

Sec. 49. "Town" refers to an incorporated town of any population. The term does not include cities. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-1-2 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.3-1995, SEC.7.

Sec. 49.3. "Uniformed services" means any of the following: (1) The Army. (2) The Navy. (3) The Air Force. (4) The Marine Corps. (5) The Coast Guard. (6) The Space Force. (7) The commissioned corps of the Public Health Service. (8) The commissioned corps of the National Oceanic a…

Sec. 49.6. "United States", as used in section 34.5 of this chapter, means any of the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.16.

Sec. 49.7. "Unknown or insufficient address" refers to an address on a mailing returned by the United States Postal Service with one (1) or more of substantially the following statements made on the mailing by the United States Postal Service or a person residing at the address t…

Sec. 49.8. "Vote center" means a polling place where a voter who resides in the county in which the vote center is located may vote without regard to the precinct in which the voter resides. As added by P.L.1-2011, SEC.1.

As added by P.L.164-2006, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.108-2008, SEC.1. Expired 12-31-2010 by P.L.108-2008, SEC.1.

Sec. 5. "Ballot label" means any of the following: (1) The printed strip or sheet of cardboard or paper, supplied for use on an electronic voting system, that contains the names of the candidates and the public questions on the ballot. (2) The material, supplied for use with a ba…

Sec. 5.3. "Board of elections and registration" refers to a board of elections and registration established under any of the following: (1) IC 3-6-5.2. (2) IC 3-6-5.4. (3) IC 3-6-5.6. As added by P.L.170-2019, SEC.1.