Returning absentee ballots

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, generally, a voter must return his or her absentee ballot by mail or deliver the ballot in person to the municipal clerk. Under this bill, a voter must return his or absentee ballot by mail or deliver the ballot in person to the office of the municipal clerk. The bill also prohibits designating an alternate site for the collection of absentee ballots, not including an alternate site for voting in person absentee, as provided under current law. In addition, the bill prohibits returning an absentee ballot by depositing it into a drop box, other than a drop box located in the office of the municipal clerk.

Finally, the bill provides that no individual may collect and deliver the absentee ballots of other voters unless the individual delivers the ballots in person to the office of the municipal clerk and prints his or her name and complete residential street address in a log maintained by the municipal clerk. In addition, the individual must print in the log the name of each voter for whom the individual delivers an absentee ballot and the individual's relation to the voter. The individual must also sign and date his or her entries in the log.

Who's behind it

2 senators are its authors⁠. All 2 are Republicans.

18 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.