SB 377

Under current law, within 30 days after each election at which a state or

national office is filled or a statewide referendum is held, the municipal clerk must

submit a written statement to the county clerk of each county in which the

municipality is located specifying certain election-related statistics, such as the

number of electors residing in the county who voted in the municipality, the number

of electors who were registered to vote in advance of the election, and the number of

electors who registered to vote on the day of the election. The county must provide

one copy of the information it receives to the Government Accountability Board

(GAB).

Under current law, after the municipal clerk receives a list of all persons who

registered to vote on election day, the municipal clerk or board of election

commissioners must make an audit of all electors who registered to vote at the

polling place, unless the GAB notifies the clerk or board of election commissioners

that it will conduct the audit. In order to conduct the audit, postcards are sent to

electors to verify that the addresses they provided on election day are correct. If a

postcard is returned undelivered; or the clerk, board of election commissioners, or

GAB is informed of a different address than the one specified by the elector that was

apparently improper on election day; the clerk, board of election commissioners, or

GAB must change the elector's status from eligible to ineligible on the registration

list and provide the elector's name to the district attorney for the county where the

polling place is located.

Under this bill, in addition to the other election-related statistics that the

municipal clerk must submit to the county, no later than 60 days after an election,

the municipal clerk must provide the total number of postcards sent to electors to

verify that the addresses they provided on election day are correct, the total number

of such postcards returned as undeliverable, and the total number of electors whose

status was changed from eligible to ineligible on the registration list as a result of

the audit. The bill also requires the GAB to publish this information on its Internet

site once it receives it from the county. In addition, if GAB performs the audit, GAB

must publish on its Internet site the total number of postcards sent to electors, the

total number of postcards returned as undeliverable, and the total number of electors

whose status was changed from eligible to ineligible.