(1) An election administrator may treat a facsimile copy request for an absentee ballot as a mail request if all other requirements of 13-13-212 , MCA are met.

(2) A facsimile copy may be accepted under (1) if it:

(a) is produced by a method of transmission of images in which the image is scanned at the transmitter, reconstructed at the receiving station, and duplicated on paper at the receiving station; and

(b) is legible and the same size as the original.