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Voter ID laws
Recount laws
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The policies governing voter participation are enacted and enforced primarily at the country level. These policies, which include voter identification requirements, early voting provisions, online voter registration systems, and more than, dictate the conditions nether which American citizens cast their ballots in their respective states.

This article includes the post-obit information about voting policies in Indiana:

  • Voter registration details, including deadlines and eligibility requirements.
  • In-person voting details, including identification requirements, poll times, and early on voting provisions.
  • Absentee/mail-in voting deadlines and rules.
  • Details about convicted felons' voting rights.
  • Contact data election agencies.
  • Summaries of noteworthy policy-related events.

Run into Election administration in Indiana for additional information about ballot administration in the country, including voter listing maintenance policies, provisional ballot rules, and mail-election auditing practices.

Voter registration

The table below displays voter registration information specific to Indiana'south 2022 primary election.

Voter registration in Indiana
Registration URL Link
Registration condition URL Link
Registration update URL Link
In-person registration borderline April 4, 2022
Mail registration borderline April iv, 2022
Mail service postmark or receipt deadline Postmarked
Online registration deadline Apr 4, 2022
Aforementioned-day registration N/A
Early voting same-day registration N/A

Eligibility and registration details

To annals to vote in Indiana, an individual must be a U.S. citizen who has resided in the precinct in which the individual will exist voting for at to the lowest degree 30 days preceding the next election. The private must be at least eighteen years onetime past the time of the next general or municipal election. Proof of residence is required to register.[1] Registration tin can be completed online, by mail service, or in person.[2] The deadline to register to vote is 29 days before the next election.[3]

Prospective voters can register in person at the following locations:

"
1) a Bureau of Motor Vehicles ("BMV") license branch while applying for or renewing a driver'southward license, permit, or identification card;
two) a public assistance function while applying for services;
three) sure agencies serving persons with disabilities while applying for assist;
four) armed forces recruitment agencies;
five) county voter registration offices and the Indiana Ballot Division; and
6) unemployment bounty offices while applying for services. (IC 3-seven-14; 3-seven-15; iii-7-16; 3-7-19 and 3-7-twenty.5)[4] [five]
"

In-person voting

The table below displays in-person voting information specific to Indiana'due south 2022 main election.

In-person voting in Indiana
All voters required to show ID Yes
ID types

Hover or tap here to see valid forms of voter ID In most cases, an Indiana commuter license, Indiana photo ID card, Military ID or U.South. Passport is sufficient.

ID source URL Link
Early voting starting time date April 5, 2022
Early voting end date May 2, 2022
Weekend voting? Yes
Early voting source URL N/A
Election Day poll times 6 a.m. to half dozen p.m.

Poll times

See too: State poll opening and endmost times

In Indiana, polls are open up from six:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time on the date of an election. An private who is in line at the time polls close must be allowed to vote.[6]

Voter identification

Run across besides: Voter identification laws by country

Indiana requires voters to present photo identification at the polls. Identification must meet the following criteria:[seven]

  • Identification must include a photo of the voter.
  • Identification must include a name that conforms to the voter's registration record.
  • Identification must be current (identification that expired subsequently the last full general election is likewise acceptable). Identification issued by the U.S. Department of Defense, a branch of the uniformed services, the Merchant Marine, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, or the Indiana National Guard need not have an expiration date.[7]
  • Identification must be issued past the country of Indiana or the U.S. authorities.[7]

A voter can obtain a free Indiana identification card from the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.[8]

Voters who are "indigent, those with a religious objection to being photographed, and those living in state-licensed facilities that serve as their precinct's polling place" tin merits an exemption from the voter identification law. If the voter is challenge an exemption based on indigence or a religious objection, the voter can cast a provisional ballot on Ballot Day and visit the county election office within 10 days to claim the exemption. A voter who is a resident of a country-licensed facility can claim the exemption at the polls on Election Mean solar day.[9]

Early voting

Meet too: Early voting

Indiana permits early voting. Learn more by visiting this website. Indiana refers to early voting as in-person absentee voting.[10]

Absentee/mail service-in voting

See besides: Absentee/mail-in voting

The table below displays absentee voting information specific to Indiana's 2022 primary election.

Absentee voting in Indiana
Are there limits on who tin request a ballot? Yes
Mail asking deadline Apr 21, 2022
Asking postmark or receipt deadline Received
Mail render borderline May 3, 2022
Return postmark or receipt deadline Received
Notary/witness requirements N/A

An individual is eligible to vote absentee by post in an ballot if he or she cannot make it to the polls on the twenty-four hour period of an election for one of the post-obit reasons:[10]

  1. The voter has "a specific, reasonable expectation" that he or she will be absent-minded from his or her home county on Election 24-hour interval during the entire voting period.
  2. The voter is disabled.
  3. The voter is 65 years of age or older.
  4. The voter will be responsible for official election duties exterior of his or her voting precinct.
  5. The voter is scheduled to piece of work during the entire voting period.
  6. The voter will "exist confined due to illness or injury" or "will exist caring for an individual confined due to illness or injury" during the entire voting menstruation.
  7. The voter is prevented from voting during the regular voting catamenia due to religious reasons.
  8. The voter is a participant in the country'south address confidentiality program.
  9. The voter is a military service member or public safe officer.
  10. The voter is a "serious sex offender" equally defined in Indiana Code 35-42-four-fourteen(a).
  11. The voter is prevented from voting due to the unavailability of transportation to the polls.

A request to vote absentee must exist received past the appropriate official at to the lowest degree eight days prior to the election. The ballot must then be returned by close of polls on Election Day.[10]

Convicted felons' voting rights

See besides: Voting rights for convicted felons

In Indiana, those convicted of a felony criminal offense regain their voting rights automatically upon completion of their prison sentences. Persons on parole, probation, or with outstanding fines are eligible to vote.[11]

Voting rights for convicted felons vary from country to state. In the majority of states, bedevilled felons cannot vote while they are incarcerated but may regain the right to vote upon release from prison house or at some point thereafter.[12] [13]

Ballot agencies

Seal of the U.Due south. Ballot Assistance Commission

Run across likewise: Country election agencies

Individuals seeking boosted information about voting provisions in Indiana can contact the following land and federal agencies.

Indiana Secretary of Country, Ballot Partitioning

302 West Washington Street, Room E-204
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
Telephone: 317-232-3939
Email: elections@iec.in.gov

U.Southward. Election Assistance Commission

1335 E Due west Highway, Suite 4300
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Telephone: 866-747-1471

Noteworthy events

2021

On April 23, 2021, Governor Eric Holcomb (R) signed SB398 into law, enacting a series of changes to the state's election assistants procedures, including (but not limited to) the following:[14]

  • Provided that a "political subdivision that conducts or administers an ballot may non receive or expend funds received from a person (other than from the state or from the federal authorities) for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, including registering voters."
  • Specified that the following household family members may assist an absentee voter: spouse, parent, father-in-law, mother-in-law, child, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, brother-in-police, sis-in-police force, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece.
  • Prohibited counting a ballot deposited in a drop-box or container non under the physical control and supervision of the canton election board.
  • Provided that a county must compare signatures upon receipt of an absentee ballot.
  • Extended the time in which an absentee ballot must be received on Election Day from noon to half-dozen p.m.
  • Authorized all counties to open up absentee ballot envelopes by auto (prior police simply allowed for Marion County to use a machine to open ballots).
  • Established procedures and forms for the curing of mismatched signatures involving an absentee ballot and unsigned absentee ballots.

SB398 was introduced in the Indiana State Senate on January 14, 2021. The Indiana Firm of Representatives approved an amended version of the pecker on March 25, 2021, by a vote of 58-30. The Senate accepted the House's amendments on April xv, 2021, past a vote of 40-2. [14]

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See also

  • Election administration in Indiana

Elections in Indiana

  • Indiana elections, 2022
  • Indiana elections, 2021
  • Indiana elections, 2020
  • Indiana elections, 2019
  • Indiana elections, 2018

External links

  • Official state election website

Footnotes

  1. Indiana Election Division, "Indiana Voter Registration Application," accessed Dec ane, 2019
  2. Secretary of Land, "Voter Registration," accessed Dec 1, 2019
  3. Secretary of State, "2019 Indiana Voter Registration Guidebook," accessed December one, 2019 (page 10)
  4. Secretary of Land, "2019 Indiana Voter Registration Guidebook," accessed December i, 2019 (page 9)
  5. Annotation: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Whatever inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  6. Indiana Secretary of Country, "Election Day HQ," accessed October 17, 2019
  7. 7.0 7.one 7.2 Indiana Secretarial assistant of Country, "Photograph ID Police," accessed October 3, 2019
  8. Indiana Secretarial assistant of Land, "Obtaining a Photo ID," accessed Oct three, 2019
  9. Indiana Secretary of Country, "Exemptions," accessed Oct iii, 2019
  10. ten.0 ten.1 10.2 Indiana Secretary of Country, "Absentee Voting," accessed September 28, 2019
  11. In.gov, "Voter Registration," accessed October 19, 2019
  12. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Felon Voting Rights," accessed July 15, 2014
  13. American Civil Liberties Union, "State Criminal Re-enfranchisement Laws," accessed September 13, 2019
  14. 14.0 xiv.1 Indiana General Assembly, "Senate Neb 398," accessed July 6, 2021