Section 7-125. Ballots; special presidential voters  


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  • 1. The ballots for
      special presidential voters shall provide for  voting  for  presidential
      and  vice presidential electors only and shall be in the form prescribed
      for absentee ballots, except that either on the front or the  back  they
      shall   be  endorsed  with  the  words  printed  or  stamped,  "Official
      Ballot-Special Presidential Voter" and "Presidential Electors".
        2. The board of elections shall furnish with each special presidential
      ballot an envelope. On one side of the envelope shall be printed:
     
                    OFFICIAL BALLOT, SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL VOTERS,
                    FOR GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER......., 19....
     
      Name of voter ..........................................................
      Residence from which vote is being cast:
      Street and number ......................................................
      City or town ...........................................................
      County .................................................................
      Assembly District or Ward ..............................................
      Election District ......................................................
     
        The date of the election and name of the county shall be printed,  and
      the  name  of  the voter, residence, name of the city or town, number of
      ward or assembly district,  if  any,  and  election  district  shall  be
      printed, written or stamped in by the board.
        3.    On  the  reverse  side  of  such  envelope  shall be printed the
      following statement:
     
                       STATEMENT OF SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL VOTER
     
        I do declare I am a  qualified  special  presidential  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
      am a citizen of the United States; that on the date of the election  for
      which  this  ballot  is voted, I will be at least eighteen years of age;
      and 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.  Each  ballot  envelope  shall  be  enclosed  in  a second envelope
      addressed to the board of elections and  bearing  a  specific  direction
      that  if an application for special presidential 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
      presidential  ballot.  Such second envelope shall be enclosed in a third
      envelope addressed to the special presidential  voter.  The  second  and
      third  envelopes  shall  have  printed  on  the  face  thereof the words
      "Election Material--Please Expedite".