20A-16-201. Duties of lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor shall:
(1)
implement this chapter and the state‘s responsibilities under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U.S.C. § 20301 et seq.;
Terms Used In Utah Code 20A-16-201
Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
Covered voter: means an individual who:
(a)
satisfies Utah's voter eligibility requirements that do not relate to residency;
(b)
is not registered to vote in a state other than Utah;
(c)
is absent from the United States on the day of the election; and
(d)
(i)
is a resident of Utah under Section 20A-2-105, but is absent from the United States on election day because the individual:
(A)
is a uniformed service voter; or
(B)
temporarily resides outside the United States;
(ii)
is a foreign United States citizen who:
(A)
before establishing a principal place of residence outside the United States, established a principal place of residence in Utah; and
(B)
did not, after leaving Utah, register to vote in a state other than Utah or establish a principal place of residence in a state other than Utah; or
(iii)
is a foreign United States citizen:
(A)
who has never registered to vote in a state other than Utah;
(B)
who has never established a principal place of residence in the United States; and
(C)
whose parent, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner established the parent's, legal guardian's, spouse's, or domestic partner's most recent United States principal place of residence in Utah. See Utah Code 20A-16-102
Federal write-in absentee ballot: means the ballot described in the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U. See Utah Code 20A-16-102
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, or American Samoa. See Utah Code 20A-16-102
make available to covered voters information regarding voter registration procedures for covered voters and procedures for casting military-overseas ballots;
(3)
establish an electronic transmission system through which a covered voter may apply for and receive voter registration materials, military-overseas ballots, and other information under this chapter;
(4)
(a)
develop standardized absentee-voting materials, including privacy and transmission envelopes and electronic equivalents of the envelopes, authentication materials, and voting instructions, to be used with the military-overseas ballot of a voter authorized to vote in any jurisdiction in the state; and
(b)
to the extent reasonably possible, coordinate with other states on the development required by Subsection (4)(a); and
(5)
prescribe the form and content of a declaration:
(a)
for use by a covered voter to swear or affirm specific representations pertaining to the voter’s identity, eligibility to vote, status as a covered voter, and timely and proper completion of an overseas-military ballot;
(b)
that is based on the declaration prescribed to accompany a federal write-in absentee ballot, as modified to be consistent with this chapter; and
(c)
that is a prominent part of all balloting materials for which the declaration is required, including an indication of the date of execution of the declaration.
