Election notice.

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A. At least one hundred (100) days before a regularly scheduled election and as soon as practicable before an election not regularly scheduled, an official in each jurisdiction charged with printing and distributing ballots and balloting material shall prepare an election notice for that jurisdiction, to be used in conjunction with a federal write-in absentee ballot. The election notice must contain a list of all of the ballot measures and federal, state, and local offices that as of that date the official expects to be on the ballot on the date of the election. The notice also must contain specific instructions for how a voter is to indicate on the federal write-in absentee ballot the voter’s choice for each office to be filled and for each ballot measure to be contested.

B. A covered voter may request a copy of an election notice. The official charged with preparing the election notice shall send the notice to the voter by facsimile, electronic mail, or regular mail, as the voter requests.

C. As soon as ballot styles are certified, and not later than the date ballots are required to be transmitted to voters under Section 14-106 of Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the official charged with preparing the election notice under subsection A of this section shall update the notice with the certified candidates for each office and ballot measure questions and make the updated notice publicly available.

D. A local election jurisdiction that maintains an Internet website shall make the election notice prepared under subsection A of this section and updated versions of the election notice regularly available on the website.

Added by Laws 2011, c. 340, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.


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