Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 230 - State Election Board › Chapter 15 - Voter Registration › Subchapter 5 - Application for Voter Registration › Part 9 - ACCESSIBILITY OF VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION SERVICES › Section 230:15-5-36 - Accessibility of voter registration application services for elderly and handicapped voters

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
				  Voter registration application services in motor license agencies and in voter
				  registration agencies listed in
				  230:15-5-122
				  and
				  230:15-5-123
				  shall be made accessible to elderly and handicapped voters.
(b) If an applicant for voter registration in
				  a motor license agency or in a voter registration agency identified in
				  230:15-5-122
				  or
				  230:15-5-123
				  requests assistance to complete the Oklahoma Voter Registration Application
				  form, personnel of the motor license agency or of the voter registration agency
				  shall be required to provide the same degree of assistance to complete the
				  voter registration application as they provide to complete the motor license
				  agency's own forms. [26:4-109.2(B)(2)]
(c) In the event that an applicant for voter
				  registration is incapable of personally signing or making his or her mark on
				  the voter registration application form, the applicant shall select an
				  assistant to help him or her complete the voter registration application form.
				  [26:4-112] The assistant may be any person the applicant chooses. Personnel of
				  motor license agencies and of voter registration agencies identified in
				  230:15-5-122
				  and
				  230:15-5-123
				  shall be required to assist such applicants if requested by the applicants to
				  do so. [26:4-112] The assistant shall be required to complete the voter
				  registration application form exactly as instructed by the applicant. The
				  following procedure shall be observed.
(1) The
				  assistant shall read the Oath to the applicant so that the applicant may
				  determine whether he or she is eligible to register to vote in
				  Oklahoma.
(2) The assistant shall
				  read the Important Information printed on the back of the Oklahoma Voter
				  Registration Application form to the applicant.
(3) The assistant shall print the applicant's
				  name on the application form in the spaces provided.
(4) The assistant shall check the appropriate
				  box to indicate the applicant's political affiliation. The assistant shall read
				  the instructions for Section 2 - Political Affiliation to the applicant if
				  necessary.
(5) The assistant shall
				  print the applicant's date of birth, Oklahoma driver's license number, the last
				  four digits of the Social Security number, if necessary, the applicant's
				  address of residence, mailing address, and county of residence in the
				  appropriate spaces on the application form. The assistant shall read the
				  instructions for Section 6 - Street Address or Directions to Your Home to the
				  applicant if necessary.
(6) The
				  assistant shall ask the applicant if he or she has ever been registered to vote
				  before and shall indicate the applicant's answer by checking the appropriate
				  box in Section 9. The assistant shall read the instructions for Section 9 -
				  Have You Been Registered Before? to the applicant if necessary. If the
				  applicant has been registered to vote before, the assistant shall record as
				  much information about the former registration as possible in the spaces
				  provided.
(7) If the applicant is
				  incapable of signing the application or of making his or her mark on the
				  application, the assistant shall print the applicant's name in the space
				  provided for Signature or Mark of Applicant. The assistant shall write his or
				  her own initials beside the applicant's printed name. The assistant shall enter
				  the date in the space provided.
(8)
				  The assistant shall print his or her own name and address in the space provided
				  at the bottom of the form.