SB 263

Currently, any person may object to the validity of an elector's registration by

filing an objection with the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners before

election day or with the inspectors at a polling place on election day. If a challenge

is made to an elector's registration on election day, the elector's ballot is marked for

review of the challenge during any recount that may be held. Currently, during the

recount of an election, the board of canvassers conducting the recount compares the

number of voted ballots to the number of voting electors as indicated on the poll lists

or supplemental lists. If, after certain other defective ballots are set aside, the

number of voted ballots still exceeds the number of voting electors, the board draws

down, at random, a number of voted ballots equal to the excess number before

recounting the voted ballots and these ballots are not counted during the recount.

This bill provides that, in determining the number of voting electors, the board

of canvassers must hear and decide any objection to the validity of the registration

of an elector who registered on election day. Under the bill, if the board of canvassers

determines that the registration of an elector who registered on election day is

invalid, the board reduces the number of voting electors by one in performing the

drawdown of voted ballots, whenever a drawdown is required.