A.  For the purposes of this section, "absentee ballot harvesting" means:

1.  Collecting or obtaining an absentee ballot from another person with the intent to submit, transmit or return the ballot to election officials on behalf of that person;

2.  Submitting, returning or transmitting an absentee ballot to election officials on behalf of another person;

3.  Collecting or obtaining an absentee ballot from another person under a false pretense or promise of transmitting, returning or submitting it to election officials on behalf of that person;

4.  Requesting or receiving an absentee ballot on behalf of another person;

5.  Partially or fully completing an application for an absentee ballot on behalf of another person without that person's prior consent; or

6.  Notarizing or witnessing more absentee ballots than allowed by law.

B.  Absentee ballot harvesting shall be unlawful at any election conducted by a county election board, the State Election Board or any political subdivision of this state; provided, the following shall not be deemed to be ballot harvesting:

1.  A voter's assistant or agent acting pursuant to law as otherwise allowed by Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

2.  An absentee voting board member, as described in Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes, who assists a voter confined to a nursing home or veterans center pursuant to law;

3.  An employee of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the United States Department of Defense or the Oklahoma National Guard who assists a uniformed-services voter in returning or transmitting an absentee ballot;

4.  A spouse, relative in the first or second degree of consanguinity or affinity or cohabitant of a voter who forwards an absentee ballot to the voter when absent from the home;

5.  A voter's spouse who, with the voter's consent, returns the voter's absentee ballot by mail; or

6.  An official action by an election official that is required or authorized by law.

Historical Data

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Laws 2020, SB 1779, c. 151, § 1, emerg. eff. May 21, 2020.

Citationizer^® Summary of Documents Citing This Document

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Title 26. Elections
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	26 O.S. 14-101.1,	Absentee Ballot Harvesting	Cited

Citationizer: Table of Authority

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None Found.