13-13-273. Counting of federal write-in absentee ballots. (1) A federal write-in absentee ballot must be counted if:
     (a) the election administrator received the elector's application for a regular absentee ballot not less than 30 days before the election;
     (b) the election administrator has not received a regular absentee ballot from the elector by 8 p.m. election day;
     (c) it has not been submitted from any location within the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or Guam; and
     (d) it is received by 8 p.m. election day.
     (2) Federal write-in absentee ballots received before the close of the polls election day will not be counted until the polls have closed.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 43, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 164, L. 1999.