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(a) The City Clerk, or designee, shall act as absentee voting official. The Clerk shall supply adequate voting supplies and ballots to the absentee voting officials. The Clerk shall provide moderate compensation to the absentee voting official to cover added expenses of the administration of this service, which shall be agreed to by the absentee voting official.

(b) The duties of the absentee voting officials shall be as follows:

(1) Provide absentee voting in person on any date including the day of the election following the procedures in KMC 6.30.040 and special needs voting on any date including the day of the election following the procedures in KMC 6.30.070; and

(2) Sign a voter’s by-mail oath and affidavit envelope as an authorized attesting official, except that the absentee voting official may not attest his/her own ballot; and

(3) Accept receipt of a by-mail voter’s hand-delivered ballot, which has been sworn to, attested and sealed in the by-mail return envelope; and

(4) Provide general voter assistance, including, but not limited to, assistance to a qualified voter who cannot read, mark the ballot, or sign his/her name, and providing replacement ballots to voters who have improperly marked or damaged their ballots; and

(5) Date-stamp all ballots received; and

(6) Provide for the security and safekeeping of all ballots received and present those ballots to the Clerk for canvassing. The Clerk will specify the means of returning the voted ballots and all other election supplies to the City.

(Repealed and Reenacted Ord. 3224-2021 (Substitute))