Title 26. Elections

Superseded Effective January 01,1999

Chapter A1.
Article IV. Voter Registration
§4-120.2. Inactive Voters.

A. No later than June 1, 1997, and every two (2) years thereafter, any voter for whom a first-class mailing from the county election board was returned during the previous twenty-four (24) months, any voter identified by the Secretary of the State Election Board as a potential duplicate and any registered voter who did not vote in any election conducted by a county election board during the previous twenty-four (24) months and who has initiated no voter registration change during the previous twenty-four (24) months shall be sent an address confirmation mailing prescribed by the Secretary of the State Election Board and paid for by the state. Voters who do not respond to the confirmation mailing or whose mailing is returned as nonforwardable shall be designated as inactive sixty (60) days after the mailing. An inactive voter's status shall be changed to active under the following conditions:

B. The secretary of each county election board shall cause to be printed the words "Address Confirmation Required" next to the voter's name on the precinct registry for all inactive voters in a precinct.

C. No later than June 1 of each odd-numbered year, the Secretary of the State Election Board shall identify duplicate voter registrations in the state and shall direct appropriate county election board secretaries to cancel the voter registration of all but the latest registration of duplicate voter registrations. Each county election board secretary shall maintain for twenty-four (24) months a list of the names and addresses of all canceled duplicate voter registrations. For the purposes of this subsection, duplicate voter registrations are those registrations which contain the following identical information on more than one registration: