A. The Secretary of the State Election Board shall designate offices in the state which provide public assistance, and offices in the state that provide state-funded programs primarily engaged in providing services to persons with disabilities as voter registration agencies. The Secretary shall identify certain other agencies of state and local government and, with their agreement, of federal and nongovernmental entities as optional voter registration agencies where voter registration services prescribed by the Secretary shall be available. Recruitment offices of the Armed Forces of the United States and offices of the county election boards shall be voter registration agencies.

B. Each designated voter registration agency shall, with each application for service or assistance and with each recertification, renewal or change of address form relating to the service or assistance of voter registration:

1. Provide a voter registration application which may include all statements and declination form required under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

2. Provide to each applicant who does not decline to register to vote the same degree of assistance with regard to the completion of the registration application form as is provided by the office with regard to the completion of its own forms, unless the applicant refuses such assistance.

3. Require each applicant either to complete a voter registration application or to sign a declination form.

C. No information relating to a declination to register to vote in connection with an application made at an office designated a voter registration agency may be used for any purpose other than voter registration.

D. Declination forms signed by each applicant shall be retained by designated voter registration agencies for twenty-four (24) months from the date of the declination.

E. The identity of a voter registration agency through which a particular voter registered may not be disclosed to the public.

F. Optional voter registration agencies where voter registration services prescribed by the Secretary shall be available, shall provide such services during regular business hours of the agency during the time prescribed by law for making such transactions.

G. Voter registration agencies which are not county election boards shall transmit all completed voter registration applications at the close of business each week to the State Election Board in preaddressed, postage prepaid envelopes provided by the State Election Board.

H. The Secretary of the State Election Board is authorized to develop with any agency designated in subsection A of this section a system to electronically transmit voter registration applications from the agency to the State Election Board or county election boards. Such system shall be consistent with the requirements for electronic submission of voter registration applications provided in Section 4-109.4 of this title.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 260, § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 87, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 326, § 2, emerg. eff. May 24, 2016.