25-1123. Advance voting; transmission of ballots; duties of election officer. (a) When an application for an advance voting ballot has been filed in accordance with K.S.A. 25-1122, and amendments thereto, the county election officer shall transmit to the voter applying therefor one each of the appropriate ballots. Unless an advance voting ballot is transmitted in person pursuant to this subsection, the county election officer shall transmit the advance voting ballots to the voter at one of the following addresses as specified by the voter on such application: (1) The voter's residential address or mailing address as indicated on the registration list; (2) the voter's temporary residential address; or (3) a medical care facility as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto, psychiatric hospital, hospice or adult care home where the voter resides. No advance voting ballot shall be transmitted by the county election officer by any means prior to the 20th day before the election for which an application for an advance voting ballot has been received by such county election officer. If the advance voting ballot is transmitted by mail, such ballot shall be transmitted with printed instructions prescribed by the secretary of state and a ballot envelope bearing upon the outside a printed form as described in K.S.A. 25-1120, and amendments thereto, and the same number as the number of the ballot. If the advance voting ballot is transmitted to the applicant in person in the office of the county election officer or at a satellite advance voting site, such advance voting ballot and printed instructions shall be transmitted in an advance voting ballot envelope bearing upon the outside a printed form as described in K.S.A. 25-1120, and amendments thereto, and the same number as the number of the ballot unless the voter elects to deposit the advance voting ballot into a locked ballot box without an envelope. All ballots shall be transmitted to the advance voting voter not more than 20 days before the election but within two business days of the receipt of such voter's application by the election officer or the commencement of such 20-day period. In primary elections required to be conducted on a partisan basis, the election officer shall deliver to such voter the ballot of the political party of the applicant.

(b) The restrictions in subsection (a) relating to where a county election officer may transmit an advance voting ballot shall not apply to an advance voting ballot requested pursuant to an application for an advance voting ballot filed by a voter who has a temporary illness or disability or who is not proficient in reading the English language.

(c) The county election officer shall compare the driver's license number, nondriver's identification card number or copy of other valid identification provided by a voter to the voter registration list verified by the division of vehicles in accordance with federal law. If no identification information was provided by the voter or if such information does not match the information on the voter registration list, the county election officer shall transmit a provisional advance voting ballot.

History: L. 1967, ch. 208, § 10; L. 1972, ch. 134, § 5; L. 1973, ch. 154, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 210, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 140, § 6; L. 1984, ch. 140, § 3; L. 1995, ch. 192, § 22; L. 1996, ch. 187, § 27; L. 1997, ch. 124, § 2; L. 1999, ch. 105, § 13; L. 2004, ch. 93, § 3; L. 2011, ch. 56, § 4; January 1, 2012.