13-13-118. Taking ballot to disabled elector. - Montana Statutes

     13-13-118. Taking ballot to disabled elector. (1) The chief election judge may appoint two election judges who represent different political parties to take a ballot to an elector able to come to the premises where a polling place is located but unable to enter the polling place because of a disability. The elector may request assistance in marking the ballot as provided in 13-13-119.
     (2) The judges shall have the elector sign an oath form stating that the elector is entitled to vote and shall write in the precinct register by the elector's name "voted on the premises by oath" and sign their names.
     (3) When the ballot or ballots are marked and folded, the judges shall immediately take them into the polling place and give them to the judge at the ballot box. The judge receiving the voted ballots shall distinctly announce that the judge has "a ballot offered by ...... (name), an elector physically unable to enter the room. Does anyone object to the reception of the ballot?" If an objection is not heard, the judge shall remove the stub and place the ballot and stub in the proper boxes. Any challenge to the elector's right to vote must be resolved as provided in Title 13, chapter 13, part 3.

     History: En. Sec. 111, Ch. 571, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 46, Ch. 56, L. 2009.