Title 3, ELECTIONS

Sec. 11. A delegate or alternate delegate selected from a congressional district to the national convention of a political party shall, on the first ballot at the national convention, support the candidate for President of the United States who received the highest number of vote…

Sec. 2. (a) A request filed under section 1 of this chapter must be accompanied by a petition signed by at least four thousand five hundred (4,500) voters of the state, including at least five hundred (500) voters from each congressional district. (b) Each petition must contain t…

Sec. 3. (a) A petition required by section 2 of this chapter must request that the candidate's name be placed on the ballot at the primary election. (b) The county voter registration office in the county where the petitioner is registered must certify whether each petitioner is a…

Sec. 4. (a) A petition required by section 2 of this chapter must be submitted to the county voter registration office during the period beginning on the first date that a declaration of candidacy for a primary election may be filed under IC 3-8-2-4 in the year in which the prima…

Sec. 5. A request or petition filed under this chapter is not valid unless received in the office of the election division by noon Indianapolis time on the final day for filing a declaration of candidacy under IC 3-8-2-4 before a primary election. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citatio…

Sec. 6. Immediately after the deadline for filing, the election division shall certify and release to the public a list of the candidates for nomination as President of the United States for each political party who have filed a request for placement on the primary ballot under t…

Sec. 7. All questions concerning the validity of a request shall be determined by the commission not later than the deadline to act upon questions concerning primary candidates under IC 3-8-2-18. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-9-19(c) part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.4.…

Sec. 7.5. (a) A person who files a request for ballot placement under this chapter may file a statement prescribed under IC 3-5-4-8 stating that the person does not wish the person's name to appear on the presidential primary ballot as a candidate. (b) A statement filed under thi…

Sec. 8. (a) Not later than the date prescribed under IC 3-8-2-17 for transmitting a certified list of candidates before a presidential primary election, the election division shall transmit to each county election board a certified list containing the name of each person qualifie…

Sec. 9. (a) Each circuit court clerk shall, not later than noon on the second Monday after the day the primary election is held, send to the election division by certified mail or hand delivery one (1) complete copy of all returns for presidential candidates. The clerk shall stat…

Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), this chapter applies to candidates in all elections and caucuses and to the following types of committees: (1) Candidate's committees. (2) Regular party committees. (3) Political action committees. (4) An auxiliary party …

Sec. 2.5. (a) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) A communication relating to an election to a federal office. (2) A communication relating to the outcome of a public question. (3) A communication described by this section in a medium regulated by federal law…

Sec. 4. (a) Money received by a candidate or committee as a contribution may be used only: (1) to defray any expense reasonably related to the person's or committee's: (A) campaign for federal, state, legislative, or local office; (B) continuing political activity; or (C) activit…

Sec. 5. (a) This section does not apply to the following: (1) A communication relating to an election to a federal office. (2) A person whose sole act is, in the normal course of business, participating in the preparation, printing, distribution, or broadcast of the advertising o…

Sec. 1. (a) Whenever a proposed state constitutional amendment or other public question is submitted by the general assembly under Article 16 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana to the electorate of the state for a popular vote, the election division shall certify the pub…

Sec. 2. (a) This subsection applies if the general assembly does not prescribe the form in which a state constitutional amendment must appear on the general election ballot. If the electorate of the state may vote on a state constitutional amendment or other public question, the …

Sec. 9. Except as provided in this chapter, all of the provisions of this title concerning the marking and counting of ballots for candidates that are consistent with this chapter apply to the marking and counting of votes for a state constitutional amendment. [Pre-1986 Recodific…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to each precinct. [1986 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.7.

Sec. 10. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the inspector of each precinct, or another member of the precinct election board authorized in writing by the inspector, shall appear at the office of the county election board of the inspector's county on the second or t…

Sec. 11. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the county election board shall deliver the following to each inspector or the inspector's representative: (1) The supplies provided for the inspector's precinct by the election division. (2) The ballot labels, if any, and all po…

Sec. 12. (a) The ballots delivered to the inspector of each precinct under section 11 of this chapter shall be placed in a strong and stout paper envelope or bag, which shall then be tightly closed, fastened securely, and attested by the initials of the circuit court clerk or the…

Sec. 12.5. This section applies when this title requires the use of a strong or stout paper envelope or bag. Notwithstanding any other law, the county election board may, by unanimous vote of the board's entire membership, use bound materials instead of a strong or stout paper en…

Sec. 13. If an inspector (or the inspector's representative) fails to appear at the office of the circuit court clerk by the close of the second day before election day, the county election board shall immediately dispatch a special messenger to the inspector's precinct with the …

Sec. 14. If a county election board dispatches a messenger under section 13 of this chapter, the messenger is entitled to receive: (1) two dollars ($2) for time; and (2) a mileage allowance at a rate determined by the county fiscal body for the distance necessarily traveled. [Pre…

Sec. 15. If an inspector fails to appear at the office of the circuit court clerk under section 10 of this chapter, the inspector is not entitled to compensation for services at the election. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-23-7 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.7.

Sec. 16. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), each county election board shall prepare and have delivered to the inspectors of the precincts, at the time they receive the ballots for their precincts, a suitable number of voter registration lists certified under IC 3-7-29 and…

Sec. 20. On the front cover of the bound looseleaf poll list sheets or the book form poll lists the following should be printed: (1) The heading: "VOTERS' POLL LIST COVER". (2) A notice to the inspector that after the polls are closed the poll list that has been used in the preci…

Sec. 22. (a) Each county election board shall have printed in at least 14 point type on cards in English, braille, and any other language that the board considers necessary, the following: (1) Instructions for the guidance of voters in preparing their ballots. (2) Instructions ex…

Sec. 23. (a) The cards required by section 22 of this chapter must contain instructions to the voters as to what must be done to: (1) obtain ballots for voting; (2) prepare ballots for voting; and (3) obtain a new ballot in place of one accidentally defaced, mutilated, or spoiled…

Sec. 24. The inspector of each precinct shall have the cards required by section 22 of this chapter posted as follows: (1) One (1) of each card in each place or compartment provided for the preparation of ballots. (2) One (1) of each card at or close to the outer end of the chute…

Sec. 25. (a) This subsection applies when the county election board provides a precinct with a printed sample ballot under section 11 of this chapter. As required by 52 U.S.C. 21082, the inspector of each precinct shall post the samples of each of the state and local ballots prov…

Sec. 26. If by accident or casualty the ballots delivered to a county election board, circuit court clerk, inspector, or other messenger are lost or destroyed, the person in custody of the ballots shall report the loss at once to the election board from which the ballots were obt…

Sec. 27. If the person in custody of the ballots fails or refuses to report and make proof of the loss as required by section 26 of this chapter, then any voter may do so. Upon such a report the election board from which the ballots were obtained immediately shall send a new supp…

Sec. 28. If for any reason there are no ballots or other necessary means for voting at the opening of the polls, the precinct election board shall secure them as quickly as possible. If necessary, the board may have ballots printed. However, the ballots must conform as nearly as …

Sec. 29. (a) If a new candidate is appointed or selected under IC 3-13-1 or IC 3-13-2 after the printing of ballots and before the election, the election board shall print ballots containing the name of the new candidate, except as provided in section 29.5 of this chapter. (b) If…

Sec. 29.3. (a) This section applies to a candidate who has filed with the secretary of state or election division as a candidate for nomination in a primary election. (b) If the election division determines that a candidate for nomination in a primary is a former candidate, the d…

Sec. 29.4. (a) This section applies to a candidate who has filed with a circuit court clerk or board of elections and registration as a candidate for: (1) nomination in a primary election or municipal primary election; or (2) election to a political party office in a primary elec…

Sec. 29.5. (a) This section applies to a general or special election in which the name of a candidate appears on the ballot. This section does not apply to an election for presidential electors. (b) The election board shall print new ballots to remove the name of a former candida…

Sec. 3. If, in the judgment of a county election board, the number of voters in a precinct of the county where a voting system is used for voting is so large that the voting system in use will not be sufficient to register the vote of all the voters in the precinct, the board may…

Sec. 31. (a) Each county election board shall preserve the unused ballots that are left over after supplying the precincts, as prescribed by section 11 of this chapter. The ballots shall be preserved until expiration of the time for filing a contest or recount petition under IC 3…

Sec. 32. (a) The county election board shall securely paste the one (1) regular ballot that was preserved under section 31 of this chapter in the election record immediately before the provisional ballot placed under subsection (b). The board shall also enter below the ballot the…

Sec. 33. Whenever a general election is held, the county election board shall provide a ballot box for each precinct. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citations: 3-1-18-2 part; 3-1-23-15 part.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.3-1987, SEC.221.

Sec. 34. Each ballot box provided under section 33 of this chapter must: (1) have an opening in the lid sufficient only for a single ballot; (2) have at least two (2) locks of different kinds and combinations, so that one (1) key will not unlock the other; and (3) be constructed …

Sec. 35. (a) This section applies to a county having a population of more than four hundred thousand (400,000) and less than seven hundred thousand (700,000). (b) In each precinct where voting is by electronic voting system, the county election board shall provide the following t…

Sec. 1. (a) Subject to IC 3-12-2-5, after the marking devices have been secured against further voting under IC 3-11-13-36, the inspector shall open the ballot box and count the number of ballot cards or envelopes containing ballot cards that have been cast to determine whether t…

Sec. 1.1. This chapter is enacted to comply with 52 U.S.C. 21081 by establishing uniform and nondiscriminatory standards to define what will be counted as a vote on an optical scan voting system. As added by P.L.209-2003, SEC.183. Amended by P.L.128-2015, SEC.210.