Section 3071 - Deadline for receipt of valid voter registration application.(a) Except as provided under subsection (b), each commission, commissioner and registrar or clerk appointed by the commission shall receive, during ordinary business hours and during additional hours as the commission prescribes, at the office of the commission and at additional places as the commission designates, applications from individuals who apply to be registered to vote as provided under 25 Pa.C.S. Part IV (relating to voter registration) who appear and claim that they are entitled to be registered as electors of a municipality.(b) In the administration of voter registration, each commission shall ensure that an applicant who is a qualified elector is registered to vote in an election when the applicant has met any of the following conditions:(1) In the case of voter registration with a motor vehicle driver's license application under 25 Pa.C.S.1323 (relating to application with driver's license application), if the valid voter registration application is received by the appropriate commission not later than fifteen days before the election.(3) In the case of voter registration at a voter registration agency under 25 Pa.C.S. 1325 (relating to government agencies), if the valid voter registration application is received by the appropriate commission not later than fifteen days before the election.(4) In any other case, if the valid voter registration application of the applicant is received by the appropriate commission not later than fifteen days before the election.(c)(1) In the case of a special election within a congressional, senatorial or representative district held on a day other than the day of a primary, general or municipal election, the registration application forms shall not be processed in the wards and election districts comprising the district for the fifteen days prior to the special election for such election.(2) No applications shall be received as follows: (iii) On the day of the election.(iv) During the fifteen days next preceding each general, municipal and primary election except as provided under subsection (b).(d) As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Commission" shall mean a registration commission established under 25 Pa.C.S. 1203 (relating to commissions).
"Commissioner" shall mean a member of a commission.
(e)(1) An applicant whose voter registration application is timely received under subsection (b) or (c) shall be deemed a registered elector of the county immediately upon acceptance of the voter registration application by the commission under 25 Pa.C.S. § 1328(c)(1) or (2) (relating to approval of registration applications), and the commission shall enter the elector's registration information in the general register, with the elector's unique identification number entered as his or her sure registration number.(2) Notwithstanding 25 Pa.C.S. § 1328(b)(2), if under subsection (b) or (c) an applicant timely presents his or her own application for voter registration under 25 Pa.C.S. § 1322 (relating to in-person voter registration), the commission shall immediately examine the application pursuant to 25 Pa.C.S. § 1328(a) and shall, while the applicant waits, promptly decide on said application by either accepting it, rejecting it or forwarding it pursuant to 25 Pa.C.S. § 1328(b) and, if accepted, process the application in accordance with 25 Pa.C.S. § 1328(c).Amended by P.L. TBD 2020 No. 12, § 7, eff. 3/27/2020.Added by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 77, § 4, eff. 10/31/2019.