Mail-in voter registration forms can be used by anyone to register others to vote. Voters must be registered at least 29 days before the election date in order to be eligible to vote. A hand- delivered voter registration form must be received by the county voter registration office by the deadline date to be considered for eligibility. A voter registration application which is processed in a full-service voter registration agency, during the application process, and submitted to an employee of that agency, will be processed before the election if it is completed in the appropriate office by the deadline date. Mail-in voter registration forms must be postmarked by the deadline date.
Any application is subject to eligibility and residency requirements before it is approved.
In addition to voter registration efforts, the NVRA changed the procedures for voter list maintenance. Declinations received by a county voter registration office must be retained for at least two years. Registered voters can no longer be purged simply for staying home on consecutive election days. Accessibility Finally, the Indiana legislation implementing NVRA made several changes to make the political process more accessible to all. Residence requirements were amended to ensure that citizens with a non-traditional residence, including the homeless, could register to vote.