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SF 354 Senate Long Description

ARTICLE 1 - VOTER REGISTRATION, PHOTO IDENTIFICATION, AND PROVISIONAL BALLOTING

Specifying sufficient documentation of identity and residence for purposes of election day voter registration; providing for state subsidized voter identification cards to be provided by the department of public safety; prohibiting fee charging; specifying photo identification requirements; establishing provisional ballot casting and counting procedures; specifying local government official duties; appropriating money

ARTICLE 2 - ELECTION ADMINISTRATION AND INTEGRITY
Modifying certain election administration procedures

ARTICLE 3 - ELECTRONIC ROSTERS

Defining polling place rosters; specifying minimum standards for electronic rosters; defining certain terms; requiring elected officials to establish minimum contingency and security procedures, minimum standards for data encryption, minimum electronic roster transaction requirements, electronic roster preelection testing procedures and minimum number of computers required for a precinct; requiring the submission of certain required written procedures and reports

ARTICLE 4 - RECOUNTS

Specifying recount officials; determining the scope of recounts; specifying automatic recount procedures for federal, state and judicial elections and recounts in county, school district and municipal elections; providing for discretionary candidate and ballot question recounts; specifying expense responsibility for discretionary recounts; establishing procedures in securing ballots and materials, locations recounts may me held and other general procedures; establishing a procedure for counting and challenging
ballots; specifying certification procedures and procedures in the event of a tie vote; establishing security deposit procedures for recount expenses;
specifying revisor instruction; repealing certain recount procedures
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