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1125 P.S. § 3146.2a (2010)
§ 3146.2a. Date of application for absentee ballot
(a) Except as provided in subsections (a.1) and (a.2), applications for absentee ballots
shall be received in the office of the county board of elections not earlier than fifty (50)
days before the primary or election and not later than five o'clock P.M. of the first
Tuesday prior to the day of any primary or election.
(a.1) Except as provided in subsection (a.2), in the event any elector otherwise qualified
who is so physically disabled or ill on or before the first Tuesday prior to any primary or
election that he is unable to file his application or who becomes physically disabled or ill
after the first Tuesday prior to any primary or election and is unable to appear at his
polling place or any elector otherwise qualified who because of the conduct of his
business, duties or occupation will necessarily be absent from the municipality of his
residence on the day of the primary or election, which fact was not and could not
reasonably be known to said elector on or before the first Tuesday prior to any primary or
election, the elector shall be entitled to an absentee ballot at any time prior to five o'clock
P.M. on the first Friday preceding any primary or election upon execution of an
Emergency Application in such form prescribed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
(a.2) In the event any elector otherwise qualified who becomes so physically disabled
or ill between five o'clock P.M. on the first Friday preceding any primary or election and
eight o'clock P.M. on the day of any primary or election that he is unable to appear at his
polling place or any elector otherwise qualified who because of the conduct of his
business, duties or occupation will necessarily be absent from the municipality of his
residence on the day of the primary or election, which fact was not and could not
reasonably be known to said elector prior to five o'clock P.M. on the first Friday
preceding any primary or election, the elector shall be entitled to an absentee ballot if the
elector completes and files with the court of common pleas in the county in which the
elector is qualified to vote an Emergency Application or a letter or other signed
document, which includes the same information as is provided on the Emergency
Application. Upon a determination that the elector is a qualified absentee elector under
section 1301, the judge shall issue an absentee ballot to the elector. If the elector is unable
to appear in court to receive the ballot, the judge shall give the elector's absentee ballot to
an authorized representative of the elector who is designated in writing by the elector.
The authorized representative shall deliver the absentee ballot to the elector and return
the completed absentee ballot, sealed in the official absentee ballot envelopes, to the
county board of elections, who shall distribute the ballot, unopened, to the absentee
voter's election district. If the elector is unable to appear in court or unable to obtain
assistance from an authorized representative, the judge shall direct a deputy sheriff of the
county to deliver the absentee ballot to the elector if the elector is at a physical location
within the county and return the completed absentee ballot, sealed in the official absentee
ballot envelopes, to the county board of elections, who shall distribute the ballots,
unopened, to the absentee voter's respective election district. If there is no authorized
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