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Application by mail - 25 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1324

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     § 1324.  Application by mail.
        (a)  General rule.--An application to register to vote or to
     change party enrollment or name or address on a current
     registration may be submitted by voter registration mail
     application in the manner set forth in this section. An
     application may be submitted by mail or by representative to the
     commission on an official mail registration application, the
     form of which shall be determined and prescribed by the
     secretary or the Federal Election Commission pursuant to the
     National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-31, 42
     U.S.C. § 1973gg et seq.). The applicant must complete the
     information required on the registration application and sign
     the registration declaration.
        (b)  Time.--Registration under this section may be made at
     any time. If a registration application is received by a
     commission beyond the deadline for registration provided in
     section 1326 (relating to time), the application shall be
     retained by the commission until the beginning of the next
     period during which registration can be made.
        (c)  Military electors.--
            (1)  A military elector may apply at any time for
        registration on an official registration application or any
        form prescribed by the Federal Government for such purpose.
            (2)  The status of a military elector to register under
        this section with respect to residence shall remain as the
        same home residence status from which the military elector is
        qualified to register. If, at the time of leaving that home
        address, the military elector had not resided in this
        Commonwealth or in a particular election district for a
        sufficient time to have been entitled to be registered but,
        by continued residence, would have become entitled to be
        registered, the military elector shall be entitled to be
        registered at the time the military elector would have been
        entitled to register had the military elector not left that
        home address but continued to reside there.
            (3)  The commission is authorized to consider a request
        for an absentee ballot as a request for an official
        registration application and to forward to the requester all
        of the following:
                (i)  An absentee ballot and balloting material.
                (ii)  An official registration application.
            (4)  The military elector must complete and file these
        documents in accordance with the applicable provisions of the
        act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the
        Pennsylvania Election Code.
            (5)  The right to be registered pursuant to this
        subsection shall not be subject to challenge for any reason
        other than failure to have furnished the commission a
        properly completed registration application.

        Cross References.  Section 1324 is referred to in sections
     1321, 1326, 1327, 1406, 1503 of this title.

Last modified: November 27, 2007