Title 3, ELECTIONS

Sec. 45. "Fax" refers to transmission of information by a facsimile (fax) machine. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 46. "Federal office" refers to President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, and Senator and Representative in the Congress of the United States. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 47. "Filing" means the following: (1) For purposes of filing an electronic report under IC 3-9-4-4 or IC 3-9-5-7, when the requirements of IC 3-9-4-4 or IC 3-9-5-7 have been met. (2) For all other purposes, when all of the following have occurred: (A) The presentation of a d…

Sec. 48. "Fiscal body" means: (1) county council, for a county not having a consolidated city; (2) city-county council, for a consolidated city or county having a consolidated city; (3) common council, for a second or third class city; (4) town council, for a town; (5) township b…

Sec. 49. "Fiscal officer" means the city controller of a second class city or the clerk-treasurer of a town or third class city. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 49.6. For purposes of IC 3-9-2-11.5, "foreign national" has the meaning set forth in 52 U.S.C. 30121(b). As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 5. "Automatic tabulating machine" means: (1) apparatus necessary to automatically count votes cast on a voting system; and (2) data processing machines that can be used for counting ballots and tabulating results. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 50. "Former candidate" refers to an individual who was a candidate for an election and satisfies any of the following: (1) The individual has died before the election, including a candidate certified as deceased under IC 3-8-7-1. (2) The individual has withdrawn as a candida…

Sec. 51. "HAVA" refers to the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 20901 through 52 U.S.C. 21145). As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 52. "IDEA" refers to the Indiana data enhancement association established by IC 3-7-38.2-5.5. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 53. "Independent" means a candidate, or a ticket of candidates for President and Vice President of the United States or for governor and lieutenant governor, who states that the candidate or ticket is not affiliated with any political party. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 53.3. "Independent expenditure" means an expenditure by a person expressly advocating the approval or rejection of a public question. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 54. "Individual with a nontraditional residence" means a person who: (1) does not reside in a private residential dwelling or an institutional structure; and (2) maintains a mobile residence or usually sleeps in a shelter, public area, or public right-of-way. As added by P.L…

Sec. 55. "Inhabitant", for purposes of: (1) Article 4, Section 7 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana; and (2) Article 6, Section 4 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana; means a person who resides at a location, as determined under IC 3-5-5. As added by P.L.186-2025…

Sec. 56. "Law enforcement officer" means a: (1) police officer; (2) sheriff; (3) constable; (4) marshal; or (5) deputy of any of those persons. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 57. "Lawful detention" has the meaning set forth in IC 35-31.5-2-186. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 58. "Legislative body" means the body having the power to adopt county, city, or town ordinances under IC 36-1-3-6. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 59. "Legislative caucus committee" means an organization that satisfies all of the following: (1) The organization is organized by members of the general assembly who belong to the same state political party. (2) The organization proposes to influence only the election of ca…

Sec. 6. "Auxiliary party organization" means an organization located within or outside Indiana that: (1) is affiliated with a political party; (2) proposes to influence the election of a candidate for state, legislative, local, or school board office, or the outcome of a public q…

Sec. 60. "Legislative office" refers to senator and representative in the general assembly. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 61. "Local office" means a circuit office, county office, city office, town office, township office, or other civil office for which the electorate of a political subdivision votes. The term includes all elected offices other than federal, state, legislative, and school boar…

Sec. 62. "Major political party" refers to: (1) with respect to the state, either of the two (2) parties whose nominees received the highest and second highest numbers of votes statewide for secretary of state in the last election; or (2) with respect to a political subdivision, …

Sec. 63. (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. 64. "Member of the military or public safety officer" has the meaning set forth in IC 10-14-2-5. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 65. "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 a …

Sec. 66. "Municipality" means a city or town. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 67. "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 convent…

Sec. 68. "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. As added …

Sec. 69. "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.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 7. "Background check" refers to the "national criminal history background check" defined in IC 10-13-3-12. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 70. "NVRA official" refers to the designee under IC 3-7-11-1. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 71. "Office" refers to the office of census data established by IC 2-5-1.1-12.2. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 72. "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. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 73. "Optical scan voting system" means a voting system using optical scan ballots. The term includes a voting system that consists of features of both a ballot card voting system and an electronic voting system. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 74. "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. 75. "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 to…

Sec. 76. (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) The term does not include a ballot card. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.…

Sec. 77. "Person" means an individual or an organization. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 78. (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. 79. "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. 8. "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. 80. "Polls" means the room in a structure where the voters of a precinct vote by casting ballots on election day. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 81. "Precinct" means a subdivision of a county or township established for election purposes. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 82. "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.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 82.4. For purposes of IC 3-9-1-4, "preliminary activity" includes conducting a poll, drafting language for a public question, the planning and use of a focus group, a telephone call, or engaging in travel. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 83. (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 States…