50-447 RETURN OF ABSENTEE BALLOT.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
CHAPTER 4
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
50-447. Return of absentee ballot. [effective until january 1, 2011] The return envelope shall be mailed or delivered to the officer who issued the same; provided, that an absentee ballot must be received by the issuing officer by 8:00 p.m. on the day of election before such ballot may be counted.
Upon receipt of an absent elector’s ballot the city clerk of the city wherein such elector resides shall write or stamp upon the envelope containing the same, the date and hour such envelope was received in his office, comparing the signature upon the return envelope with the elector’s registration card to ensure that signatures correspond. He shall safely keep and preserve all absent elector’s ballots unopened until the time prescribed for delivery to the judges in accordance with this chapter.