16-134. Return of registrations made outside
office of county recorder; incomplete or illegible forms
A. A county recorder shall authorize persons to accept registration forms, shall
designate places for receipt of registration forms and shall designate additional
locations for distribution of voter registration forms. Public assistance agencies and
disabilities agencies as defined in section 16-140 shall return or mail completed voter
registrations to the county recorder of the county in which the applicant resides within
five days after receipt of those registrations.
B. If the information on the registration form is incomplete or illegible and the
county recorder is not able to process the registration form, the county recorder shall
notify the applicant within ten business days of receipt of the registration form, shall
specify the missing or illegible information and, if the missing or illegible information
includes any of the information prescribed by section 16-121.01, subsection A, shall
state that the registration cannot be completed until the information is supplied. If the
missing or illegible information is supplied before 7:00 p.m. on election day, that
person is deemed to have been registered on the date the registration was first received.
C. In the case of registration by mail, a voter registration is valid for an
election if it complies with either of the following:
1. The form is postmarked twenty-nine days or more before an election and is
received by the county recorder by 7:00 p.m. on the day of that election.
2. The registration is dated twenty-nine days or more before an election and is
received by the county recorder by first class mail within five days after the last day
to register to vote in that election.
D. The date of registration entered for registration forms that are received by the
county recorder from persons, groups or agencies that are not authorized to accept
registrations pursuant to subsection A of this section and that do not bear a legible
postmark date or an otherwise reliable date shall be the date that those forms are
received by the county recorder.
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