election official shall print the ballot, place the ballot in a secrecy envelope, attach the absent voter's application for the ballot, and securely store the enveloped ballot and the application with all the other absentee ballots. When the absentee ballot election board meets to process and count absentee ballots, the ballot from the covered voter must be transferred onto a paper ballot and tabulated with all the other valid absent voters' ballots. 4. For every primary, general, special statewide, district, or county election, the county auditor shall use the outgoing, return, and secrecy envelopes prescribed by the secretary of state. If there is more than one ballot to be voted by an elector of the precinct and the voting system will be unable to tabulate one or more of the ballots , one of each kind must be included and a secrecy envelope and a return envelope must be enclosed with the ballot or ballots. The front of the return envelope must bear the official title and post -office address of the officer supplying the voter with the ballot and upon the other side a printed voter's affidavit in substantially the following form: Precinct ______________________________________________ Name ________________________________________________ Residential Address _____________________________________ City ___________________________ ND Zip Code ____________ Under penalty of possible criminal prosecution for making a false statement, I swear that I reside at the residential address provided above, that I have resided in my precinct for at least thirty days next preceding the election, and this is the only ballot I will cast in this election. Applicant's Signature ____________________________________ Date _________________________________________________ The signature on this affidavit will be compared to the signature on the affidavit included in the application for the absentee ballot. 5. If the absent voter is unable to sign the voter's name on the affidavit required under this section , the voter shall mark (X) or use the applicant's signature stamp on the affidavit in the presence of a disinterested individual. The disinterested individual shall print the name of the individual marking the X or using the signature stamp below the X or signature stamp and shall sign the disinterested individual's own name following the printed name together with the notation "witness to the mark". 6. Each individual requesting an absent voter's ballot under this chapter must be provided a set of instructions, prescribed by the secretary of state, sufficient to describe the process of voting by absent voter's ballot. The voting instructions must contain a statement informing the individual that the individual is entitled to complete the absent voter's ballot in secrecy. 7. Each individual requesting an absent voter's ballot by mail under this chapter who cannot read the English language or lives with a disability preventing the individual from marking the voter's ballot may receive , upon request, the assistance of any individual of the voter's choice, other than the voter's employer, an officer or agent of the voter's union, a candidate running in that election, or a relative of a candidate as described in subsection 2 of section 16.1-05-02, in marking the voter's ballot. 8. An election official shall deliver an absentee ballot to a qualified elector only upon receipt of an application meeting the requirements of section 16.1 -07-06 from the elector.
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