A. For locations where early voting is not available, the borough clerk may provide absentee voting and appoint election officials who are willing and able to serve as absentee voting officials. Any person may apply for an absentee ballot in person. Absentee voting will be made available 15 days before an election, up to and may include the day of the election, during the hours designated for absentee voting, by completing an absentee in person envelope. The period for absentee voting may be extended to up to 21 days before the date of the election by borough assembly resolution.

B. Upon completion of an absentee in person envelope and exhibition of proof of identification as required in KIBC 7.30.060(C), the clerk or an absentee voting official shall issue the ballot and small gray envelope to the applicant. The ballot must be voted at the polling place and no ballot may be removed from the polling place.

C. On receipt of an absentee ballot in person, the voter shall mark the ballot in secret, place the ballot in the small gray envelope, place the small gray envelope in the absentee in person envelope, and sign the voter’s certificate on the absentee in person envelope in the presence of the clerk or absentee voting official who shall sign as attesting official and date that signature. The clerk or absentee voting official shall then accept the ballot.

D. The clerk or absentee voting official may not accept a marked ballot that has been exhibited by an absentee voter with the intent to influence other voters. If the absentee voter spoils the ballot, the voter may receive up to two replacement ballots. No voter should receive more than three ballots. Exhibited or spoiled ballots shall be destroyed. The numbers of all ballots destroyed shall be noted on the spoiled ballot accountability statement and stored in the spoiled ballots envelope.

E. The clerk or absentee voting official shall keep a record of the names and signatures of voters who cast absentee ballots and the dates on which the ballots were cast. [Ord. FY2023-05 §2, 2022; Ord. FY2009-19 §2, 2009; Ord. 02-11 §4; Ord. 86-22-O §2, 1986].