(a) 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 twenty-five (25) days before a preferential primary, general election, school election, nonpartisan judicial general election, nonpartisan judicial runoff election, or any special election.
(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).
History. Acts 1969, No. 465, Art. 9, § 2; 1971, No. 261, § 28; A.S.A. 1947, § 3-902; Acts 1997, No. 1092, § 4; 1999, No. 649, § 1; 2001, No. 1789, § 10.