Title 26. Elections

Superseded Effective January 01,1999

Chapter A1.
Article IV. Voter Registration
§4-120.3. Deceased Persons - Cancellation of Registration.

The State Health Department shall each month transmit to the Secretary of the State Election Board a certified list of all deaths of residents that have occurred within the state for the immediately preceding month. The Secretary of the State Election Board shall transmit said list to the secretary of the county election board who shall then use said list to ascertain those voters who are deceased, and shall thereafter remove such deceased person's name from the central registry and the Oklahoma Election Management System. Said list shall be used only for the purposes hereinbefore described. In addition, the registration of a deceased voter may be canceled by the secretary of a county election board upon the execution by the next of kin of said deceased voter of a form and upon the nature of proof of the fact thereof as prescribed by the Secretary of the State Election Board. Said form must be executed either in person by said next of kin at the county election board office, in which case it shall be witnessed by the secretary or other designated employees, or at the voter's precinct polling place on the day of any election, in which case it shall be witnessed by the inspector of said precinct.

Laws 1981, c. 45, § 4, emerg. eff. April 8, 1981; Laws 1990, c. 331, § 9, eff. July 1, 1990tempmarker