Ind. Code § 3-11-10-12.5 – Absentee ballots cast at clerk's office or satellite office on direct record electronic voting system; central counting permitted; list of voters sent to precinct; challenge of ballots; adjustment of

(a) This section applies to absentee ballots cast:
1. (1) under section 26 or 26.3 of this chapter; and
2. (2) on a direct record electronic voting system.
(b) Notwithstanding section 12 of this chapter, a county election board is not required to deliver absentee ballots described in subsection
(a) to the precincts for counting. However, the county election board shall deliver to each precinct a list of the names of voters who have cast absentee ballots described in subsection (a). The county election board shall deliver this list at the same time the county election board delivers other absentee ballots to the precinct. Absentee ballots described in subsection (a) may be challenged using the same procedure that applies to other absentee ballots. The judges shall mark the poll list to indicate that each voter on the list sent by the county election board has voted by absentee ballot. If a voter has already voted at the precinct or if the absentee ballot is challenged, the judges shall note that fact on the list sent by the county election board and return the list to the county election board with the precinct's other election materials. The county election board shall delete the absentee votes of a voter described in subsection (a) whose name has been noted by the judges as having voted at the precinct. The county election board shall count the absentee ballots described in subsection (a) using the procedures in IC 3-11.5 for counting absentee ballots at a central location, including the procedures for challenging absentee ballots and eliminating the absentee ballots of individuals voting in person at the polls, to assure that the ballots cast on the direct record electronic voting system may be counted.
(c) A county election board acting under this section:
(1) may count all absentee ballots described in subsection (a) at a central location; and
(2) shall adjust the vote totals for each precinct based on the count of absentee ballots under subdivision (1).
(d) This section does not require a county election board to count absentee ballots not described in subsection (a) at a central location under this section or IC 3-11.5 .

As added by P.L.66-2010, SEC.23.