Title 3, ELECTIONS

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…

Sec. 83.6. "Prohibited source" is a foreign national. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 84. (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 regis…

Sec. 85. "Provisional ballot" refers to a ballot cast in accordance with the provisions of IC 3-11.7. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 86. "Provisional voter" refers to an individual who is entitled to cast a provisional ballot under IC 3-11.7. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 87. "Public question" means a constitutional amendment, proposition, or other issue submitted to the electorate at an election. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 87.5. "Ranked choice voting" refers to a system of voting that: (1) allows a voter to rank to each candidate on a ballot for a particular office in an order of preference; and (2) tabulates each ballot in multiple rounds following the elimination of a candidate; until a sing…

Sec. 88. "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.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 89. "Regular party committee" means: (1) a central committee; or (2) a national committee of a political party. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 9. "Ballot card" refers to an optical scan ballot. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 90. "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.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 90.3. "Retraction", with respect to a ballot, means: (1) the removal of votes on the ballot from the memory or the document onto which the votes were recorded; or (2) the exclusion or subtraction of votes on the ballot from the final total from the memory or tabulation syste…

Sec. 91. "Scantron" means an optical scan ballot that consists of an optical scan card that contains: (1) the names of; or (2) coding that indicates the names of; political parties and candidates selected by the voter. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 92. "School board" means the governing body of a school corporation (as defined in IC 20-18-2-5). As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 93. "School board office" refers to an elected position on the school board of a school corporation. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 94. "School corporation" refers to a public school corporation established under IC 20. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 95. "School district" means the taxing district of a school corporation. As added by P.L.186-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 96. "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. 97. "State office" refers to the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state comptroller (referred to as "auditor of state" in the Constitution of the State of Indiana), treasurer of state, attorney general, justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of ap…

Sec. 97.5. "Tabulated" means, with respect to ballots, the process of cumulating into totals the votes on the ballots in a precinct, a county, or the election district for each office and each public question on the ballot in the precinct, county, or election district after accou…

Sec. 98. "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.L.…