Part 81 — Secretarial Election Procedures
Subpart A — Purpose and Scope
Subpart B — Definitions
Subpart C — Provisions Applicable to All Secretarial Elections
- § 81.5— What informal review is available to a tribe or petitioner when anticipating adopting or amending a governing document?
- § 81.6— How is a Secretarial election requested?
- § 81.7— What technical assistance will the Bureau provide after receiving a request for election?
- § 81.8— What happens if a governing Federal statute and this part disagree?
- § 81.9— Will the Secretary give deference to the Tribe's interpretation of its own documents?
- § 81.11— May a tribe establish a voting age different from 18 years of age for Secretarial elections?
- § 81.12— What type of electioneering is allowed before and during Secretarial election?
- § 81.13— What types of voting assistance are provided for a Secretarial election?
- § 81.14— May Secretarial elections be scheduled at the same time as tribal elections?
- § 81.15— How are conflicting proposals to amend a single document handled?
- § 81.16— Who pays for holding the Secretarial election?
- § 81.17— May a tribe use its funds to pay non-Federal election officials?
- § 81.18— Who can withdraw a request for a Secretarial election?
Subpart D — The Secretarial Election Process under the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)
- § 81.19— How does the Bureau proceed after receiving a request for a Secretarial election?
- § 81.20— What is the first action to be taken by the Chair of the Election Board?
- § 81.21— What are the responsibilities of the Secretarial Election Board in conducting a Secretarial election?
- § 81.22— How is the Secretarial election conducted?
- § 81.23— What documents are included in the Secretarial Election Notice Packet?
- § 81.24— What information must be included on the Secretarial election notice?
- § 81.25— Where will the Secretarial election notice be posted?
- § 81.26— How does BIA use the information I provide on the registration form?
- § 81.27— Must I re-register if I have already registered for a tribal or Secretarial election?
- § 81.28— How do I submit my registration form?
- § 81.29— Why does the Secretarial Election Board compile a Registered Voters List?
- § 81.30— What information is contained in the Registered Voters List?
- § 81.31— Where is the Registered Voters List posted?
- § 81.32— May the Registered Voters List be challenged?
- § 81.33— How does the Secretarial Election Board respond to challenges?
- § 81.34— How are the official ballots prepared?
- § 81.35— When must the Secretarial Election Board send ballots to voters?
- § 81.36— What will the mailout or absentee ballot packet include?
- § 81.37— How do I cast my vote at a polling site?
- § 81.38— When are ballots counted?
- § 81.39— How does the Board determine whether the required percentage of registered voters have cast ballots?
- § 81.40— What happens if a ballot is spoiled before it is cast?
- § 81.41— Who certifies the results of the Election?
- § 81.42— Where are the results of the Election posted?
- § 81.43— How are the results of the Election challenged?
- § 81.44— What documents are sent to the Authorizing Official?
- § 81.45— When are the results of the Secretarial election final?
Subpart E — The Secretarial Election Process Under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA)
Subpart F — Formulating Petitions To Request a Secretarial Election
- § 81.49— What is the purpose of this subpart?
- § 81.50— Who must follow these requirements?
- § 81.51— How do tribal members circulate a petition to adopt or amend the tribe's governing document?
- § 81.52— Who may initiate a petition?
- § 81.53— Who may sign a petition?
- § 81.54— Who is authorized to submit a petition to the Secretary?
- § 81.55— How is the petition formatted and signed?
- § 81.56— Do petitions have a minimum or maximum number of pages?
- § 81.57— How do I determine how many signatures are needed for a petition to be valid?
- § 81.58— How long do tribal members have to gather the signatures?
- § 81.59— How does the spokesperson file a petition?
- § 81.60— How does the Local Bureau Official process the petition?
- § 81.61— How can signatures to the petition be challenged?
- § 81.62— How is the petition validated?
- § 81.63— May the same petition be used for more than one Secretarial election?