Okla. Stat. tit. 26, § 14-101.1 (2026)

A. For the purposes of this section, “absentee ballot harvesting” means: 1. Collecting or obtaining an absentee ballot from another person with the intent to submit, transmit or return the ballot to election officials on behalf of that person; 2. Submitting, returning or transmitting an absentee ballot to election officials on behalf of another person; 3. Collecting or obtaining an absentee ballot from another person under a false pretense or promise of transmitting, returning or submitting it to election officials on behalf of that person; 4. Requesting or receiving an absentee ballot on behalf of another person; 5. Distributing an absentee ballot application or request to a voter using the official letterhead of a candidate or elected official;

6. Partially or fully completing an application for an absentee ballot on behalf of another person without that person’s prior consent; or 7. Notarizing or witnessing more absentee ballots than allowed by law. B. Absentee ballot harvesting shall be unlawful at any election conducted by a county election board, the State Election Board or any political subdivision of this state; provided, the following shall not be deemed to be ballot harvesting: 1. A voter’s assistant or agent acting pursuant to law as otherwise allowed by this title; 2. An absentee voting board member, as described in this title, who assists a voter confined to a nursing home or State Veterans Home pursuant to law; 3. An employee of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the United States Department of Defense or the Oklahoma National Guard who assists a uniformed-services voter in returning or transmitting an absentee ballot; 4. A spouse, relative in the first or second degree of consanguinity or affinity or cohabitant of a voter who forwards an absentee ballot to the voter when absent from the home; 5. A voter’s spouse who, with the voter’s consent, returns the voter’s absentee ballot by mail; or 6. An official action by an election official that is required or authorized by law. Added by Laws 2020, c. 151, § 1, emerg. eff. May 21, 2020. Amended by Laws 2022, c. 291, § 4; Laws 2024, c. 452, § 17, emerg. eff. June 14, 2024.