If the secretary of a county election board receives a request from an incapacitated elector confined to a nursing facility, as defined in Section 1-1902 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or a veterans center established pursuant to Title 72 of the Oklahoma Statutes within the county of the jurisdiction of the secretary, the secretary shall cause to be implemented the following procedures:
1. On the Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Monday preceding the election, the absentee voting board shall deliver to each registered voter who is confined to a nursing facility, as defined in Section 1-1902 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or a veterans center established pursuant to Title 72 of the Oklahoma Statutes and who requested ballots for an incapacitated voter said ballots and materials as may be necessary to vote same.
2. The voter must mark the ballots in the manner hereinbefore provided in the presence of the absentee voting board, but in such a manner as to make it impossible for any person other than the voter to ascertain how said ballots are marked. Insofar as is possible, the voting procedure shall be the same as if the voter were casting a vote in person at a precinct.
3. The voter shall then seal said ballots in the plain opaque envelope and shall seal said plain opaque envelope in the envelope bearing an affidavit. The voter must complete said affidavit, and the signature of the voter on same must be witnessed by both members of the absentee voting board.
4. The envelope bearing an affidavit then must be sealed in the return envelope, which shall be returned by the absentee voting board to the secretary of the county election board on the same day said affidavit was executed.
5. Ballots cast in said manner shall be counted in the same manner as regular mail absentee ballots.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 201, § 15, operative July 1, 1974. Renumbered from § 327.15 of this title by Laws 1976, c. 90, § 11, emerg. eff. May 6, 1976. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 277, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 2002, c. 447, § 18, emerg. eff. June 5, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 485, § 12; Laws 2009, c. 92, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.
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