Indiana Code Title 3. Elections § 3-6-6-14

Sec. 14.  (a) This section does not apply to a vacancy in the office of election sheriff in a precinct that is subject to a resolution adopted under section 5 of this chapter.

(b) If a precinct election officer fails to appear at the hour set for the opening of the polls, or if a precinct election office becomes vacant during election day, the remaining members of the precinct election board shall fill the vacancy upon the nomination of the highest ranking precinct election officer nominated by the county chairman of the same political party whose county chairman was entitled to nominate the holder of the office to be filled.

(c) If a county chairman fails to nominate the individual appointed to make a nomination to fill a vacant precinct election office under subsection (b), the individual appointed by the county election board to this precinct election office under section 13(b) of this chapter is entitled to make the nomination to fill the vacant precinct office under this section.

(d) For the purpose of these nominations, the rank of precinct election officers is as follows: