§ 16.1-07-18 — Definitions

election official shall print the ballot, place the ballot in a secrecy envelope, attach the
absent voter's application for the ballot, and securely store the enveloped ballot and
the application with all the other absentee ballots. When the absentee ballot election
board meets to process and count absentee ballots, the ballot from the covered voter
must be transferred onto a paper ballot and tabulated with all the other valid absent
voters' ballots.
4. For every primary, general, special statewide, district, or county election, the county
auditor shall use the outgoing, return, and secrecy envelopes prescribed by the
secretary of state. If there is more than one ballot to be voted by an elector of the
precinct and the voting system will be unable to tabulate one or more of the ballots,
one of each kind must be included and a secrecy envelope and a return envelope
must be enclosed with the ballot or ballots. The front of the return envelope must bear
the official title and post-office address of the officer supplying the voter with the ballot
and upon the other side a printed voter's affidavit in substantially the following form:
Precinct ______________________________________________
Name ________________________________________________
Residential Address _____________________________________
City ___________________________ ND Zip Code ____________
Under penalty of possible criminal prosecution for making a false
statement, I swear that I reside at the residential address provided
above, that I have resided in my precinct for at least thirty days
next preceding the election, and this is the only ballot I will cast

in this election.
Applicant's Signature ____________________________________
Date _________________________________________________
The signature on this affidavit will be compared to the signature on the
affidavit included in the application for the absentee ballot.
5. If the absent voter is unable to sign the voter's name on the affidavit required under
this section, the voter shall mark (X) or use the applicant's signature stamp on the
affidavit in the presence of a disinterested individual. The disinterested individual shall
print the name of the individual marking the X or using the signature stamp below the
X or signature stamp and shall sign the disinterested individual's own name following
the printed name together with the notation "witness to the mark".
6. Each individual requesting an absent voter's ballot under this chapter must be
provided a set of instructions, prescribed by the secretary of state, sufficient to
describe the process of voting by absent voter's ballot. The voting instructions must
contain a statement informing the individual that the individual is entitled to complete
the absent voter's ballot in secrecy.
7. Each individual requesting an absent voter's ballot by mail under this chapter who
cannot read the English language or lives with a disability preventing the individual
from marking the voter's ballot may receive, upon request, the assistance of any
individual of the voter's choice, other than the voter's employer, an officer or agent of
the voter's union, a candidate running in that election, or a relative of a candidate as
described in subsection 2 of section 16.1-05-02, in marking the voter's ballot.
8. An election official shall deliver an absentee ballot to a qualified elector only upon
receipt of an application meeting the requirements of section 16.1-07-06 from the
elector.