(a) Any qualified voter is eligible to vote absentee by personal appearance.
(b) A person is entitled to vote absentee by mail if such person is:
(1) expected to be absent from the county on election day;
(2) sick or physically disabled which prevents him or her from appearing at the polling place on election day;
(3) sixty-five (65) years of age or older on election day;
(4) confined in jail; or
(5) prevented from attending the polling place because of religious beliefs.
(c) The presiding election judge, or alternate presiding judge if the person appointed presiding judge cannot serve, and the two election clerks appointed for the general election shall also serve as the absentee ballot board for the counting of the absentee ballots. The alternate judge shall serve on the board when the regular presiding judge serves at the election. Absentee ballots shall be delivered to the board by the absentee voting clerk on or before election day. The absentee ballot board shall count the absentee ballots and process the results on election day. The ballots and results of such absentee voting shall be kept separate from those ballots cast on election day.