Title 3, ELECTIONS

Sec. 20. (a) Notwithstanding section 16 of this chapter, if a person is notified by the election division that the commission may assess a proposed civil penalty under this article against the person, the person may enter into an agreement with the election division to pay the pr…

Sec. 3. The commission shall prepare, publish, and furnish to candidates and all interested persons on request a manual setting forth recommended uniform methods of bookkeeping and reporting and shall summarize all the requirements of this article. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citati…

Sec. 4. (a) The election division shall develop a filing and coding system consistent with the purposes of this article. The election division and each county election board shall use the filing and coding system. The coding system must provide: (1) not more than ten (10) codes t…

Sec. 4.5. (a) As used in this section, "board" refers to either of the following: (1) A county election board. (2) A board of elections and registration. (b) A board may establish a system for electronic filing of reports required to be filed by a candidate or committee under thi…

Sec. 5. (a) The election division and each county election board shall make the reports and statements filed with them available for public inspection and copying, commencing as soon as practicable but not later than the end of the second business day following the day during whi…

Sec. 6. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the election division and each county election board shall preserve reports and statements for four (4) years from December 1 following the election to which they pertain, unless the records are in litigation. (b) This su…

Sec. 7. The election division and each county election board shall compile and maintain a current list of all statements or parts of statements pertaining to each candidate, committee, and public question. [Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-4-5-6.] As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.5…

Sec. 8. (a) The election division shall prepare and make available to the public an annual report including compilations of total reported contributions and expenditures for all candidates, committees, and other persons during the year. (b) Each county election board may prepare …

Sec. 9. The election division and each county election board may prepare and publish annual compilations of: (1) total amounts expended according to categories it determines and broken down into: (A) candidate; (B) party; (C) legislative caucus committee; and (D) political action…

Sec. 1. (a) The names of the candidates of: (1) a political party; (2) a group of petitioners under IC 3-8-6; or (3) a write-in candidate for the office of President or Vice President of the United States under IC 3-8-2-2.5; for presidential electors and alternate presidential el…

Sec. 1.5. For each presidential elector position in Indiana: (1) a political party; (2) a group of petitioners under IC 3-8-6; or (3) a write-in candidate for the office of President or Vice President of the United States under IC 3-8-2-2.5; must submit the names of two (2) quali…

Sec. 1.7. (a) Each presidential elector nominee and each alternate presidential elector nominee of a political party shall execute the following pledge: "If selected for the office of presidential elector, I agree to serve and to mark my ballots for President and Vice President f…

Sec. 11. (a) After the vote of Indiana's presidential electors is completed, if the final list of presidential electors differs from any list that the governor previously included on a certificate of ascertainment prepared and transmitted under 3 U.S.C. 6, the secretary of state …

Sec. 2. (a) This section applies when paper ballots are used. (b) A single square shall be printed in front of a bracket enclosing the names of the nominees for President and Vice President of the United States on the left margin of each separate column of the ballot, immediately…

Sec. 2.1. (a) This section applies when an optical scan ballot card is used. (b) The names of the nominees for President and Vice President of the United States for each political party or group of petitioners grouped as described in section 1(b)(3) of this chapter must be: (1) l…

Sec. 2.2. (a) This section applies when an electronic voting system is used. (b) The names of the nominees for President and Vice President of the United States for each political party or group of petitioners grouped as described in section 1(b)(3) of this chapter must be: (1) l…

Sec. 3. The device, title, and names of nominees appearing on a ballot or ballot label shall be accompanied by a statement that a ballot cast for the named candidates for President and Vice President of the United States is considered a ballot cast for the slate of presidential e…

Sec. 4. Each vote cast or registered: (1) for the nominees for President and Vice President of the United States of: (A) a political party; or (B) a group of petitioners; or (2) for a write-in candidate for President or Vice President of the United States; is a vote cast or regis…

Sec. 5. (a) This subsection applies to a major political party and to a political party subject to IC 3-8-4-10. The state chairman of each political party shall certify to the election division the names of the nominees of the party for President and Vice President of the United …

Sec. 6. (a) If a nominee for President or Vice President of the United States ceases to be a candidate before the nominee's ticket is officially certified, then that fact and the name and the state of residence of the nominee's successor, if any, shall be certified in the same ma…

Sec. 6.5. (a) In submitting Indiana's certificate of ascertainment as required by 3 U.S.C. 6, the governor shall certify Indiana's presidential electors and state in the certificate the following: (1) That the presidential electors will serve as presidential electors unless a vac…

Sec. 7. (a) The presidential electors and alternate presidential electors who are elected at a general election shall assemble in the chamber of the Indiana house of representatives on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December as provided by 3 U.S.C. 7, or on anoth…

Sec. 8. (a) This section applies if a presidential elector: (1) files the presidential elector's resignation with the governor under IC 5-8-3.5; (2) dies or is otherwise disqualified from holding office, and the presidential elector's death or disqualification is certified to the…

Sec. 9. (a) The presidential electors, when assembled and after vacancies are filled, shall then vote by paper ballot for President and Vice President of the United States and perform the duties imposed upon them by the Constitution and statutes of the United States and of Indian…

Sec. 0.5. For purposes of this chapter, an absentee ballot application or an absentee ballot is considered "sent" to a voter if the application or ballot is: (1) sent by United States mail addressed to the voter; (2) transmitted by fax to a number provided by the voter; or (3) pe…

Sec. 1. (a) A voter who is otherwise qualified to vote in person is entitled to vote by absentee ballot. Except as otherwise provided in this article, a voter voting by absentee ballot must vote in the office of the circuit court clerk (or board of elections and registration in a…

Sec. 1.5. The provisions of this chapter relating to an absentee ballot application do not apply to a voter who votes: (1) in person under IC 3-11-10-26 or IC 3-11-10-26.3; and (2) in a county using an electronic poll book. As added by P.L.169-2015, SEC.95.

Sec. 10. Each circuit court clerk shall: (1) not less than sixty (60) days before the date on which a general, primary, or municipal election is held; or (2) not more than three (3) days after the date on which a special election is ordered; estimate the number of absentee ballot…

Sec. 12.5. (a) This section applies to an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter. (b) If a voter makes a timely application for and does not receive an absentee ballot from a county election board, the voter may use a federal write-in absentee ballot in the form prescr…

Sec. 14. (a) All absentee ballots other than those specified in section 12.5 of this chapter shall be: (1) prepared and printed under the direction of each county election board; and (2) after December 31, 2024, printed on security paper that incorporates features which can be us…

Sec. 15. The absentee ballots that are prepared and printed under the direction of a county election board shall be delivered to the circuit court clerk (or the board acting under IC 3-6-5.2 or IC 3-6-5.6) at least fifty (50) days before a general, primary, special, or municipal …

circuit court clerk; distribution of ballots Sec. 16. Each package of absentee ballots delivered to a circuit court clerk shall be plainly marked, on an appropriate attached label, with the words: "This package contains _______ (giving number of ballots) absentee ballots." The cl…

Sec. 17. Upon receipt of an application for an absentee ballot, a circuit court clerk shall file the application in the clerk's office and record all of the following in the statewide voter registration list maintained under IC 3-7-26.3: (1) The voter's name. (2) The date the app…

Sec. 17.5. (a) Upon receiving an application for an absentee ballot, the county election board (or the absentee voter board in the office of the circuit court clerk) shall determine if: (1) the applicant is a voter of the precinct in which the applicant resides, according to the …

Sec. 17.6. (a) For purposes of this section, "clerk" means: (1) the circuit court clerk; or (2) in a county subject to IC 3-6-5.2 or IC 3-6-5.6, the director of the board of elections and registration. (b) This subsection applies to an application to receive an absentee ballot by…

Sec. 17.7. (a) This section applies when a voter: (1) has been mailed the official ballot under this chapter; and (2) notifies the county election board that: (A) the ballot has been destroyed, spoiled, lost, or not received by the voter after a reasonable time has elapsed for de…

Sec. 17.8. (a) This section applies to a replacement ballot issued under section 17.7 of this chapter. (b) The county election board shall enclose the official replacement ballot in an envelope that complies with section 20 of this chapter. The envelope must contain a notation th…

Sec. 18. (a) If a voter satisfies any of the qualifications described in IC 3-11-10-24 that entitle a voter to cast an absentee ballot by mail, the county election board shall, at the request of the voter, mail the official ballot, postage fully prepaid, to the voter at the addre…

Sec. 18.5. (a) Upon receipt of an absentee ballot application, a member of the county election board or a member of an absentee voter board may file an affidavit with the county election board alleging that the application: (1) was not submitted by a voter of the precinct; (2) co…

Sec. 19. (a) Subject to IC 3-5-4-9, a ballot that is mailed must bear the circuit court clerk's official seal and signature or facsimile signature on the back of the ballot. Before the ballot is mailed: (1) the two (2) members of the absentee voter board in the office of the circ…

Sec. 2. (a) A voter who wants to vote by absentee ballot must apply to the county election board for an absentee ballot. Except as provided in subsection (b), the voter must sign the absentee ballot application. (b) If a voter with disabilities is unable to sign the absentee ball…

Sec. 2.1. If a person receives a completed absentee ballot application that the person has reason to believe is materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent, the person shall deliver the application to the appropriate county election board not later than the deadline set forth in …

information; updating voter registration record; confidentiality Sec. 2.2. (a) Each day the bureau of motor vehicles shall provide to the secretary of state and the election division: (1) driver's license numbers; (2) identification card numbers; and (3) the last four (4) digits …

Sec. 20. An absentee ballot mailed under section 18 of this chapter shall be enclosed in an envelope, unsealed and stamped for return to the county election board by at least first class mail. One (1) side of the envelope must bear the name, official title, and post office addres…

Sec. 21. (a) On the other side of the envelope required by section 20 of this chapter shall be printed an affidavit in conformity with 52 U.S.C. 20302(b) and with the name of the precinct completed by the county election board, providing that the voter affirms under penalty of pe…

Sec. 3. (a) For purposes of this section, "clerk" means: (1) the circuit court clerk; or (2) in a county subject to IC 3-6-5.2 or IC 3-6-5.6, the director of the board of elections and registration. (b) Except as provided in subsection (e) and section 6 of this chapter, an absent…