The Borough Clerk may appoint any person qualified to vote in state elections to act as absentee voting officials. The Borough Clerk shall supply adequate voting supplies and ballots to the absentee voting officials. After taking an oath in the form required of election judges, an absentee voting official may perform all the duties of an election official with respect to the issuance, witnessing and receipt of absentee ballots at such places and times as the Borough Clerk may designate. Each absentee voting official shall transmit the dated envelopes containing the marked ballots to the Borough Clerk in the manner set forth in the written instructions provided by the Borough Clerk. Upon receipt of the absentee ballots, the Borough Clerk shall hold the ballots in a secure location until they can be transferred to the Canvass Board along with the absentee in-person registers and other election materials received from the absentee voting official. (Ord. 2004-45 § 2, 2004. 2004 Code § 2.12.530.)