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                                  TITLE  34
                                  ELECTIONS
                                  CHAPTER 10
                               ABSENTEE VOTING
    34-1002.  APPLICATION FOR ABSENTEE BALLOT. Any registered elector may make
written application to the county clerk, or other proper officer charged by
law with the duty of issuing official ballots for such election, for an
official ballot or ballots of the kind or kinds to be voted at the election.
The application shall contain the name of the elector, his home address,
county, and address to which such ballot shall be forwarded.
    The application for an absent elector's ballot shall be signed personally
by the applicant. The application for a mail-in absentee ballot shall be
received by the county clerk not later than 5:00 p.m. on the sixth day before
the election. An application for in person absentee voting at the absent
elector's polling place described in section 34-1006, Idaho Code, shall  be
received by the county clerk not later than 5:00 p.m. on the day before the
election. Application for an absentee ballot may be made by using a facsimile
machine. In the event a registered elector is unable to vote in person at his
designated polling place on the day of election because of an emergency
situation which rendered him physically unable, he may nevertheless apply for
an absent elector's ballot on the day of election by notifying the county
clerk. No person, may, however, be entitled to vote under an emergency
situation unless the situation claimed rendered him physically unable to vote
at his designated polling place within forty-eight (48) hours prior to the
closing of the polls.
    A person may make application for an absent elector's ballot by use of a
properly executed federal postcard application as provided for in the laws of
the United States known as Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
(UOCAVA, 42 U.S.C. 1973 ff, et seq.). A properly executed federal postcard
application (F.P.C.A.), shall be considered as a request for an absent
elector's ballot through the next two (2) regularly scheduled general
elections for federal office following receipt of the application. The issuing
officer shall keep as a part of the records of his office a list of all
applications so received and of the manner and time of delivery or mailing to
and receipt of returned ballot.
    The county clerk shall, not later than seventy-five (75) days after the
date of each general election, submit a report to the secretary of state
containing information concerning absentee voters as required by federal law.