Senate Bill 0178

ARCHIVE (2012)

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Absentee ballots, recounts, and contests. Requires that the words "absentee ballot" be printed in prominent type with uniform capital letters at the top of every absentee ballot prepared and printed by a county election board. Eliminates the requirement that the third member of a recount commission be a mechanic. Requires that all contracts or leases for the sale or lease of voting equipment, systems, or software entered into, amended, or renewed after June 30, 2012, must include a provision that requires the vendor of the voting equipment, systems, or software, in the event of a recount of an election in which the vendor's voting equipment, systems, or software is used, to provide to the recount commission a competent expert who is familiar with the voting equipment, systems, or software used in the election. Provides that multiple recount petitions, in order to be consolidated, must be filed not later than noon on the fourteenth day (in the case of petitions filed by candidates) or seventeenth day (in the case of petitions filed by county chairmen) after election day. (Under current law, the petitions must be filed not later than noon on the seventh day after election day.) Eliminates the requirement that the state recount commission's hearing on a contest petition be convened at least two days after the contest proceeding is ordered.

    Current Status:
     In Committee - first House
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