HB 2547 — voting centers ban; precinct size

Senate Engrossed House BillEngrossed voting centers ban;

Beginning in 2026, the department of administration shall coordinate with state agencies and counties to provide available and appropriate state-owned facilities for use as a voting location for any city, county or state election when requested by the officer in charge of elections.

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If the polling place is not on the website list of polling places with emergency designations, electioneering and other -political 3activity -shall H.B.be allowed outside of the seventy-five foot limit.

2547If politicalan activityemergency shallarises beafter allowedthe outsidecounty recorder or other officer in charge of elections' initial website posting, the seventy-fivecounty footrecorder limit.or other officer in charge of elections shall update the website as soon as is practicable to include any new polling places, shall highlight the - 3 - H.B.

If2547 an emergency arises after the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections' initial website posting, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections shall update the website as soon as is practicable to include any new polling places, shall highlight the polling place location on the website and shall specify the reason the emergency designation was granted and the number of attempts that were made to find a polling place before granting an emergency designation.

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K.J.

When an election is ordered, and not less than twenty days before a general or primary election, the board of supervisors shall appoint for each election precinct, voting center or other voting location one inspector, one marshal, two judges and as many clerks of election as -deemed 4necessary. - H.B.

2547 deemed necessary.

The inspector, marshal and judges shall not- have4 changed- theirH.B. political party affiliation or their no party preference affiliation since the last preceding general election, and if they are members of the two political parties that cast the highest number of votes in the state at the last preceding general election, they shall be divided equally between these two parties.

2547 not have changed their political party affiliation or their no party preference affiliation since the last preceding general election, and if they are members of the two political parties that cast the highest number of votes in the state at the last preceding general election, they shall be divided equally between these two parties.

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2547 D.

Any registered voter in the election precinct, or in another election precinct if there are not sufficient persons available in the election precinct for which- the5 clerks- areH.B. being appointed, may be appointed as clerk.

2547 which the clerks are being appointed, may be appointed as clerk.

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2547 Sec.

In addition to name and address, the requesting elector shall provide the date of birth- and6 state- orH.B. country of birth or other information that if compared to the voter registration information on file would confirm the identity of the elector.

2547 birth and state or country of birth or other information that if compared to the voter registration information on file would confirm the identity of the elector.

Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, a request for an official early ballot from an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter as defined in the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act of 1986 (P.L.

52 United States Code section 20310) or a voter whose information is protected pursuant to section 16-153 that is received by -the 7county -recorder H.B.or other officer in charge of elections more than ninety-three days before the election is valid.

2547 the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections more than ninety-three days before the election is valid.

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2547 C.

Saturdays, Sundays and other legal holidays are excluded from the computation of the forty-eight-hourforty-eight hour FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR period prescribed by this subsection.

In order to be complete and correct and to receive an early ballot by mail, an elector's request that an early ballot be mailed to the elector's residence or temporary address must include all of the information prescribed by subsection A of this section and must be received by the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections notno NOT later than 5:00 p.m.

An elector who appears personally notno later than 7:005:00 p.m.

on the Friday preceding the election at an on-site early voting location that is established by the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections shall be given a ballot after presenting identification as prescribed in section 16-579 and shall be allowedpermitted to vote at the on-site location.

Notwithstanding section 16-579, subsection A, paragraph 2, at any on-site early voting location the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections may provide for a qualified elector to update the elector's -voter 8registration -information H.B.as provided for in the secretary of state's instructions and procedures manual adopted pursuant to section 16-452.

2547 voter registration information as provided for in the secretary of state's instructions and procedures manual adopted pursuant to section 16-452.

Unless an elector specifies that the address to which an early ballot is to be sent is a temporary address, the recorder may use the information- from8 an- earlyH.B. ballot request form to update voter registration records.

2547 information from an early ballot request form to update voter registration records.

As a result of experiencing an emergency between 7:005:00 p.m.

Before voting pursuant to this subsection, an elector who experiences an emergency shall provide identification as prescribed in section 16-579 and shall sign a statement under penalty of perjury that states that the person is experiencing or experienced an emergency after 7:005:00 p.m.

All original and completed early ballot request forms that are received by a candidate, political committee or other organization shall -be 9submitted -within H.B.six business days after receipt by a candidate, political committee or other organization or eleven days before the election day, whichever is earlier, to the political subdivision that will conduct the election.

2547 be submitted within six business days after receipt by a candidate, political committee or other organization or eleven days before the election day, whichever is earlier, to the political subdivision that will conduct the election.

Any person who knowingly fails to submit a completed early ballot request form before the submission- deadline9 for- theH.B. election immediately following the completion of the form is guilty of a class 6 felony.

2547 submission deadline for the election immediately following the completion of the form is guilty of a class 6 felony.