§ 1231Deadline 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. Pt. 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.
   (2) (Reserved).
   (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) ((2) deleted by amendment Mar. 27, 2020, P.L.41, No.12).
   (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).
   ((e) added Mar. 27, 2020, P.L.41, No.12)
   (1231 added Oct. 31, 2019, P.L.552, No.77)