Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

For the purposes of this section the term clerk
shall mean the clerk of the board of county commissioners whenever an election
involves changing the boundaries of school districts, or the creation of new
school districts by consolidation of districts or division of a district. In
all other school elections the term "clerk" shall mean the clerk of the board
of trustees of the school district.
In any school election, a qualified school elector who expects to be
absent from the district on the day of the election, or who will be unable,
because of physical disability or blindness, to go to the polling place, may
vote in such election in the manner herein provided.
Any such elector may make written application to the clerk for a ballot or
ballots of the kind or kinds to be voted on at such election, which
application shall contain the name of the elector, the trustee zone of the
district in which he resides, and his present address. The application for an
absent elector's ballot shall be filed with the clerk not later than 5:00 p.m.
of the day before the election.
The clerk receiving such application shall, not more than twenty-eight
(28) days prior to the day of the election, deliver to said applicant elector
personally or by mail to the mailing address given in the application, postage
prepaid, a ballot or ballots, one (1) of each kind thereof, to be voted on in
the election, and a form of oath of qualification.
The elector shall vote in secret and shall enclose his ballot or ballots
in an envelope to be supplied by the clerk and seal the same. The elector
shall then place the secrecy envelope in a return envelope, together with the
form of oath of qualification executed by him, and address and mail, or
deliver, the same to the clerk. The absentee ballot must be received by the
clerk, not later than 8:00 p.m. on the day of the election, before such ballot
may be counted.
Any elector physically unable to mark his own ballot may receive
assistance in marking his ballot from the officer delivering same or an
available person of his own choosing. In the event the officer is requested to
render assistance in marking an absent elector's ballot, the officer shall
ascertain the desires of the elector and shall vote the applicant's ballot
accordingly. No election officer or any other person assisting a disabled
voter shall attempt to influence the vote of such elector in any manner.
The written applications shall be kept by the clerk as a part of the
records of the election and he shall, on the day of the election and before
the polling places are closed, deliver to the proper board of election all
such envelopes together with a list, compiled and signed by him, of the
electors making application to vote in absentia.
The board of election shall verify all return envelopes delivered to it by
the clerk against the names appearing on the said list, open the return
envelopes and examine the elector's oath. If these are found to be in order,
the ballots shall remain in the secrecy envelopes and be placed in the ballot
box in the same manner as though the elector were personally present and
voting; and the voter's name shall thereupon be subscribed in any polling book
or other record kept at such election.

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