§ 4.120.040. Absentee voting officials—Duties.

A.

The borough clerk may, with the approval of the city clerks in the borough, appoint city clerks or others in the area to act as absentee voting officials. If no city clerk is available or if the city clerk is unable or unwilling to act as an absentee voting official, the borough clerk may appoint any qualified voter to serve as an absentee voting official. The clerk shall supply adequate voting supplies and ballots to the absentee voting officials. The clerk shall provide moderate compensation to the absentee voting officials to cover added expenses of the administration of this service, which shall be agreed to by the absentee voting officials.

B.

The duties of the absentee voting officials shall be as follows:

1.

provide absentee voting in person on any date including the day of the election following the procedures in KPB 4.80.060 and special needs voting on any date including the day of the election following the procedures in KPB 4.80.095;

2.

sign a voter's by-mail oath and affidavit envelope as an authorized attesting official, except that the absentee voting official may not attest his or her own ballot;

3.

accept receipt of a by-mail voter's hand-delivered ballot, which has been sworn to, attested and sealed in the by-mail return envelope; and

4.

provide general voter assistance, including by not limited to, assistance to a qualified voter who cannot read, mark the ballot, or sign his name, and providing replacement ballots to voters who have improperly marked or damaged their ballots.

5.

Date-stamp all ballots received.

6.

Provide for the security and safekeeping of all ballots received and present those ballots to the clerk for canvassing. The borough clerk will specify the means of returning the voted ballots and all other election supplies to the borough.

(Ord. No. 2002-17, § 17, 6-4-02; Ord. No. 94-08, § 1(part), 1994; Ord. No. 93-41, § 2, 1993; Ord. No. 92-05, § 1, 1992)