Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5511 – Carrier envelope specifications; carrier envelopes as ballot boxes
(a) The Department shall purchase envelopes to be used as carrier envelopes, which shall be security mailing envelopes, designed to securely protect the contents thereof from tampering, removal, or substitution without detection and shall be large enough to accommodate multiple absentee ballots cast in the election.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5511
- Ballot: means those portions of cardboard, paper or other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting machine or to be used for absentee voting in order to list the names of the offices to be voted for, the name of each candidate and the designation of the party by which the candidate is nominated, a space for the voter to write in the name of any candidate of that voter's choice for any office, and the statement of any question submitted with provision for a "yes" or "no" vote. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Department: means the State Department of Elections, consisting of the State Board of Elections and such staff as the Board shall appoint under this title, but shall not include the State Election Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
(b) Carrier envelopes shall:
(1) For all purposes of this title be considered the official ballot boxes for absentee votes cast during a given election;
(2) Contain voted absentee ballots from a single election district;
(3) Be labeled to reflect the election district whose absentee ballots are held inside; and
(4) Ensure the security of said ballots in the event they must be moved for the purposes of certifying an election or recounting votes cast in an election.
(c) A sealed carrier envelope may be reopened only when necessary to certify an election or recount votes cast in an election.
(d) In the event the Department must move absentee ballots for the purposes of certifying an election, or recounting votes cast in an election, it shall select the carrier envelopes for the affected election districts and move them, in a secure fashion, to the location where the carrier envelopes will be opened and the votes inside inspected.
(e) Upon completion of any inspection of votes pursuant to this subsection, absentee ballots shall be returned to the carrier envelopes from which they were removed and the carrier envelopes shall be:
(1) Resealed in a secure manner, or shall be placed in another security envelope, for the purposes of securely protecting the contents thereof from tampering, removal, or substitution without detection; and
(2) Placed in a secure location and held there until such time as it is destroyed or moved for further legal process.
44 Del. Laws, c. 118, § ?10; 45 Del. Laws, c. 155, § ?9; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?5513; 49 Del. Laws, c. 278, § ?9; 50 Del. Laws, c. 173, § ?4; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?132; 60 Del. Laws, c. 414, § ?21; 68 Del. Laws, c. 301, § ?8; 75 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?90;