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SF 1218 Senate Long Description

3E Relating to elections; modifying certain voting procedures and requirements for absentee voters; adding military identification card numbers and passport numbers to restricted data provisions; modifying required information for ballot application; expanding the identification numbers accepted for recording ballot applications; modifying certain voter application challenging procedure; allowing county auditor replacement ballot mailing under certain conditions; modifying identification information request on the back of the ballot return envelope; authorizing county auditors to mail replacement ballots under certain conditions; providing for the transmission of ballots electronically, specifying ballot return procedures; authorizing the use of the state write in absentee ballot; authorizing county auditors to establish absentee ballot boards for absentee ballots, specifying duties of board; modifying certain duties of election judges relating to checking voter eligibility and recording ballots; modifying provisions for the recording of accepted and rejected ballots; providing for ballot counting in the case of a voter voting more than once; providing for a separate record of absent voters to be generated by the statewide registration system; repealing provision allowing a municipal clerk to administer the duties of the county auditor in carrying out absentee voting procedures
(Ch. 190, 2008)