Modifying and clarifying certain elections provisions; defining or redefining certain terms; providing for the acceptance as valid of certain additional registration application forms; requiring electronic availability of absentee ballot application forms; authorizing military voters to register at the time of absentee ballot application; specifying certain additional requirements of absentee ballot return envelopes; requiring county auditors to designate election judges to deliver absentee ballots to health care facility patients and residents for cities not administering absentee voting laws; creating an exception to the requirement for signatures to match on ballot applications and return envelopes; restricting reasons to reject absentee ballots; requiring county auditors to notify individuals submitting absentee voting challenge applications under certain conditions; requiring the affidavit on the back of the ballot return envelope to contain a signed and dated oath relating to residence outside the country; expanding election judge return envelope marking requirements; clarifying and expanding certain polling place equipment requirements; modifying the requirement for the secretary of state to transmit blank forms to county auditors and expanding certain poster requirements; requiring filing notices to list the names of incumbents for judicial offices; providing for inspection of polling place rosters; expanding certain election day county auditor recordkeeping requirements; clarifying certain uncontested judicial office ballot requirements; requiring secretary of state preparation of notices of nomination for special primary elections; establishing election reporting systems for municipal and school district elections; prohibiting annexations during certain election periods; modifying certain affidavit of candidacy filing requirements for hospital district elections
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