Section 7-124. Ballots for special federal voters  


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  • 1. The ballots for
      special federal voters shall provide for  voting  for  presidential  and
      vice-presidential  electors,  United  States  senator, representative in
      congress, and delegates and alternate delegates to a national convention
      only and shall be in the form prescribed by this  chapter  for  absentee
      ballots, except that on either the front or the back of the ballot shall
      be  printed  or  stamped  the  words  "Official  Ballot--Special Federal
      Voter", provided, however, that at any election at which special federal
      voters may vote for all the offices and positions on the ballot, no such
      separate ballot shall be printed and  the  ballot  for  special  federal
      voters  shall  be  the same as the ballot provided to absentee voters in
      such election.
        2. The board of elections shall  furnish  with  each  special  federal
      ballot an envelope. On one side of the envelope shall be printed:
     
                      OFFICIAL BALLOT, SPECIAL FEDERAL VOTERS,
     
      FOR..........ELECTION......... 20......
     
      Name of voter ..........................................................
      Residence from which vote is being cast:
        Street and number ....................................................
        City or town .........................................................
        County ...............................................................
        Assembly District or Ward ............................................
        Election District ....................................................
        Party Enrollment (in case of primary election) .......................
     
        The  date of the election and the name of the county shall be printed,
      and the name of the voter, residence, name of town, number  of  ward  or
      assembly district, if any, and election district shall be either printed
      or written or stamped in by the board.
        3.    On  the  reverse  side  of  such  envelope  shall be printed the
      following statement:
     
                         STATEMENT OF SPECIAL FEDERAL VOTER
     
        I do declare I am a qualified special federal voter of said  district;
      that  I  am  not  qualified and am not able to qualify to vote elsewhere
      than as set forth on the reverse side of this envelope; that I have  not
      committed  any  act  nor  am  I under any impediment which denies me the
      right to vote.
        I hereby declare that the foregoing is a true statement to the best of
      my knowledge and belief, and I understand that if I  make  any  material
      false  statement  in  the  foregoing  statement,  I shall be guilty of a
      misdemeanor.
     
      Date......... 20......
                                               ...............................
                                               Signature or mark of voter
                                               ...............................
                                               Signature of Witness (required
                                               only if voter does not sign his
                                               own name)
                                               ...............................
                                               Address of Witness
    
        4. The envelope shall be gummed, ready for  sealing,  and  shall  have
      printed  thereon, on the side opposite the statement, instructions as to
      the duties  of  the  voter  after  the  marking  of  the  ballot,  which
      instructions  shall  include  a  specific  direction  stating  that  the
      envelope  must  be  delivered  or  mailed  to  the  appropriate board of
      elections and a specific direction stating when such  envelope  must  be
      delivered or postmarked and when such envelope, if so mailed, must reach
      such board of elections in order to be canvassed.
        5.  Such envelope shall be enclosed in a second envelope bearing on it
      the address of the board of  elections,  the  words  "Official  Election
      Balloting  Material--Via  Air  Mail" and a specific direction that if an
      application for special federal ballot is received with the ballot, such
      application must be completed by the voter and returned in such envelope
      together with the envelope containing the special federal ballot.