Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 610

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 5, SECTION 4A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE RELATING TO ABSENTEE VOTING.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware (two-thirds of all Members elected to each House concurring therein):

Section 1. Article 5, § 4A of the Constitution of the State of Delaware is amended by striking out and repealing said section and by inserting and enacting a new § 4A to read as follows:

§ 4A. General laws for absentee voting

The General Assembly shall enact general laws providing that any qualified elector of this State, duly registered, who shall be unable to appear to cast his or her ballot at any general election at the regular polling place of the election district in which he or she is registered, either because of being in the public service of the United States or of this State, or because of his or her sickness or physical disability, may cast a ballot at such general election to be counted as provided by law.