Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: sending or transmitting absentee ballots.
Elections — Ballots Municipality — Officers Municipality — Taxation
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law requires a municipal clerk to send an absentee ballot for each
partisan primary, presidential preference primary, and general election to all
electors requesting the ballot, including military and overseas electors, no later than
the 47th day before the partisan primary, presidential preference primary, or general
election or, if the request is not made before that day, within one business day after
the request is received. For all other primaries and elections, the municipal clerk
must send or transmit the absentee ballot no later than the 21st day before the
primary or election or, if the request is not made before that day, within one business
day after the request is received.
Under this bill, a municipal clerk must send or transmit an absentee ballot for
all primaries and elections, regardless of the type of primary or election, to electors
other than military and overseas electors no later than the 21st day before the
primary or election or, if the request is not made before that day, within one business
day after the request is received.
The bill does not alter the time frame in which municipal clerks must send or
transmit absentee ballots to military and overseas electors, except that the bill
specifies that absentee ballots for special primaries and elections are among the
ballots that must be sent to military and overseas electors if requested.