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Allowing registered voters to make applications for absentee ballots through electronic means and making penalties applicable
Topics:Elections & voting
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
- 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 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill allows registered voters to make applications for absentee ballots through electronic means. Under the bill, a registered voter may apply to the commissioner for an absentee ballot either through electronic mail or through the county commissioner of election’s internet site. on the Friday before the election. If the commissioner receives such an application more than days prior to the date of the election, the commissioner is required to retain the application and process it in the same manner as an electronic application received not more than days before the date of the election.
Read the full explanation
These provisions are the same as those for written applications under current law. An electronic application for an absentee ballot is required to contain all of the same information as a written application, except that such an application need not include a signature and may include the last four digits of the voter’s social security number in lieu of a voter verification number. Under current law, a person commits election misconduct in the first degree if the person makes a false or untrue statement in an application for an absentee ballot or makes or signs a false certification or affidavit in connection with an absentee ballot. Election misconduct in the first degree is a class “D” felony. A class “D” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than five years and a fine of at least $1,025 but not more than $10,245.
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- HF 73 Allowing registered voters to make applications for absentee ballots through electronic me…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
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