Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF0509

6E Relating to elections

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

Specifying sufficient documentation
of identity and residence for purposes of election day voter registration;
defining voter identification (ID) card and specifying no fee for voter ID card
and application data; providing for voter identification cards to be provided by
the department of public safety; requiring duplicate voter ID card for address
and name changes; providing for an expiration date; incorporating identification
care security procedures; modifying certain provisions regarding the appointment
of election judges; specifying acceptable documentation of identity and
residence; modifying certain procedures for polling place rosters; prohibiting
fee charging; specifying photo identification requirements; establishing
provisional ballot casting and counting procedures; specifying local government
official duties; modifying state and county canvassing board procedure;
establishing a state-subsidized voter identification card account and
transferring certain money to the account; instructing the commissioner of
administration to contract for the production and implementation of a statewide
public educational campaign related to voter identification
requirements

ARTICLE 2 - ELECTION ADMINISTRATION AND INTEGRITY

Modifying
certain election administration procedures; establishing a challenged voter
eligibility list; requiring the secretary of state to report to the legislature
on the amending of administrative rules necessary to implement this
act

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 encription, minimum electronic roster
transaction requirements, electronic roster preelection testing procedures and
minimum number of computers required for a precinct opting to use electronic
rosters; requiring the submission of certain required written procedures and
reports; establishing the legislative task force on electronic roster
implementation; specifying duties and membership

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 be 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

ARTICLE 5 - TITLE;
SEVERABILITY; APPROPRIATIONS

Specifying the title of this act to be "The 21st
Century Voting Act"; establishing that all provisions of this act are severable;
appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for the purposes of
the public education campaign, to the secretary of state for information
technology costs associated with the electronic roster requirements and the
commissioner of management and budget for transfer to the state-subsidized
identification card for the purposes of providing voter identification
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