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2-6-501. Voting or registering by mail outside United States or by armed forces Envelopes.

For persons voting absentee by mail or registering by mail from outside the territorial limits of the United States and for all armed forces personnel, there shall be printed across the face of each envelope in which a ballot or any registration material is to be sent two (2) parallel horizontal bars, each one-fourth inch (¼²) wide, extending from one side of the envelope to the other side, with an intervening space of one-fourth inch (¼²), the top bar to be one and one-fourth inches (1¼²) from the top of the envelope, and with the words Official Election Balloting Material-Via Air Mail, or similar language, between the bars. There shall be printed on the upper right-hand corner of each such envelope, in a box, the words Free of United States Postage, Including Air Mail. There shall be printed in the upper left-hand corner of each envelope an appropriate inscription for return address of sender. The envelopes shall be printed on as lightweight paper as possible consistent with the secrecy of the official ballot.

[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 2-606, 2-6-106; Acts 1994, ch. 859, § 6; 2008, ch. 928, § 13.]

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2-6-501. Voting or registering by mail outside United States or by armed forces Envelopes.

For persons voting absentee by mail or registering by mail from outside the territorial limits of the United States and for all armed forces personnel, there shall be printed across the face of each envelope in which a ballot or any registration material is to be sent two (2) parallel horizontal bars, each one-fourth inch (¼²) wide, extending from one side of the envelope to the other side, with an intervening space of one-fourth inch (¼²), the top bar to be one and one-fourth inches (1¼²) from the top of the envelope, and with the words Official Election Balloting Material-Via Air Mail, or similar language, between the bars. There shall be printed on the upper right-hand corner of each such envelope, in a box, the words Free of United States Postage, Including Air Mail. There shall be printed in the upper left-hand corner of each envelope an appropriate inscription for return address of sender. The envelopes shall be printed on as lightweight paper as possible consistent with the secrecy of the official ballot.

[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 2-606, 2-6-106; Acts 1994, ch. 859, § 6; 2008, ch. 928, § 13.]

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2-6-501. Voting or registering by mail outside United States or by armed forces Envelopes.

For persons voting absentee by mail or registering by mail from outside the territorial limits of the United States and for all armed forces personnel, there shall be printed across the face of each envelope in which a ballot or any registration material is to be sent two (2) parallel horizontal bars, each one-fourth inch (¼²) wide, extending from one side of the envelope to the other side, with an intervening space of one-fourth inch (¼²), the top bar to be one and one-fourth inches (1¼²) from the top of the envelope, and with the words Official Election Balloting Material-Via Air Mail, or similar language, between the bars. There shall be printed on the upper right-hand corner of each such envelope, in a box, the words Free of United States Postage, Including Air Mail. There shall be printed in the upper left-hand corner of each envelope an appropriate inscription for return address of sender. The envelopes shall be printed on as lightweight paper as possible consistent with the secrecy of the official ballot.

[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 2-606, 2-6-106; Acts 1994, ch. 859, § 6; 2008, ch. 928, § 13.]