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Relating to the database of persons prohibited from voting or registering to vote due to conviction of a felony
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2020
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The state election official must check the list of people who cannot vote due to a felony conviction to make sure it is accurate every year. If a county official finds that someone was wrongly removed from the voter rolls because of a mistake on this list, they must tell that person. The official must also fix the mistake by putting the person back on the voter registration list at their last known address.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the database of persons prohibited from voting or registering to vote due to conviction of a felony. The bill requires the state commissioner of elections to verify the accuracy of the database by days before the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year, and to have verified the accuracy of percent of the database by July of each year. After verifying the database, the state commissioner of elections must submit a report to the general assembly by the first week of the next regular session of the general assembly regarding errors in the database. The bill requires a county commissioner of elections who discovers that a person’s voter registration has erroneously been canceled due to an error in the felon voter database to inform the person of the error, and to reinstate the person’s registration at the last-known address of the person if the address is within the county of the county commissioner of elections.