2012 Arkansas Code
Title 7 - Elections
Chapter 5 - Election Procedure Generally
Subchapter 4 - -- Absentee Voting
§ 7-5-407 - Preparation and delivery of ballots.

(a) (1) The county board of election commissioners shall prepare official absentee ballots and deliver them to the county clerk for mailing to all qualified applicants as soon as practicable but in any event not later than forty-seven (47) days before a preferential primary, general election, school election, nonpartisan judicial general election, nonpartisan judicial runoff election, or any special election.

(2) Upon the receipt of the absentee ballots, the county clerk shall begin delivering ballots to absentee voters as soon as practicable and, no later than forty-six (46) days before the applicable election, shall deliver ballots to those absentee voters who made timely application under:

(A) Section 7-5-406; or

(B) 42 U.S.C. § 1973ff, et seq., as existing on January 1, 2011.

(b) The county board shall prepare official absentee ballots and deliver them to the county clerk for mailing to any qualified applicant as soon as practicable but in any event not later than ten (10) days before all other elections not included in subsection (a).