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Page 3 .B. NO. mail election shall be conducted and the only precincts open on the day of the election shall be the multiple county offices of elections sites. There shall be a dropsite at all of the county office of elections and a minimum of additional dropsites throughout the county to equal one dropsite for approximately 20,000 registered voters. (The total number of dropsites, including the offices of elections, shall be the approximate number of registered voters divided by 20,000.) This information shall also be published and mailed to each voter with the ballot package. (c) The Direct Record Electronic voting machines will be located at the offices of elections sites for use by voters meeting requirements under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). -3 Procedures for conducting Vote By Mail. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the county clerk shall mail by nonforwardable mail to each registered voter between thirty - five days and twenty -one days before the date of the election: (1) An official ballot; (2) A return identification envelope that shall be printed with the monetary amount of postage to be applied to the envelope by the voter and a message: "To return ballot by mail, voter must apply $ . postage." (A) a bar code containing sufficient voter information from the general county register to identify that voter without opening the envelope. This will allow the county office of elections to match the voter to the general county register and verify that the signature of the voter is authentic; (B) A signature box on the return identification envelope; a written warning near the signature box on the return identification envelope stating: "WARNING'! Signing another person's signature to this envelope is class C felony ", and an affirmation declaration: "I hereby affirm that I am the registered voter whose name is on the envelope. I am a resident of the precinct and representative district as indicated on the envelope. I am entitled to vote. I understand that signing another person's signature is a class C felony." (3) A secrecy envelope; (4) An instruction sheet on how to complete Vote By Mail that includes the instruction that the ballot must be returned to a designated dropsite or a county office of elections by 6:00 p.m. on election day or the ballot will not be counted; and (5) A voters' pamphlet that is a printed insert provided by the county clerk that contains a summary of each ballot question or measure, a concise, impartial explanation of each question or ballot measure and its major effects and a single, concise -pro and con statement of less than 250 words each ballot question or measure to be voted on. (b) If the county clerk determines that a voter does not receive daily mail service from the United States Postal Service, the county clerk shall mail by another nonforwardable mail service the same ballot package described in section _ -3 above to each registered voter between thirty - five and twenty -one days before the date of the election. Bill for an ACT Re Voting