New Louisiana Absentee Voting laws went into effect August 1. They are a part of the state’s election integrity legislative package.

Act 380 stops anyone other than an immediate family member from sending more than one marked ballot per election through the mail. This keeps an individual from possbily filling out multiple ballots and dropping them off at the post office or bringing them in person to the registrar’s office. 

Act 302 makes it illegal for anyone other than an immediate family member of the voter or an employee of the Registrar of Voters office to assist with the absentee ballot of more than one voter. The law helps in the undue influence of an individual on the voter and restricts a person from assisting multiple individuals. 

 Act 317 states that no person, except for an immediate family member, can distribute an absentee application to any person who has not requested one. It further states that only immediate family members of the voter shall submit more than one completed application. 

The law states that an immediate family member is defined as: “the individual’s children, the spouses of this children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, his parents, his spouse and the parents of his spouse.”

For more information contact the Red River Parish Registrar of Voters Office at 318.932.5027.