Reports and district attorney charging decisions concerning allegations of fraud or misconduct at an election. (FE)

What it would have done

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

Under this bill, each municipal clerk and board of election commissioners must keep a record of all complaints concerning allegations of election fraud or misconduct received by the clerk or board of election commissioners at an election. The bill requires the clerk or board of election commissioners, no later than 14 days after each election, to submit a report detailing each such allegation to the Elections Commission and to the district attorney for the county in which the municipality is located. Under the bill, no later than 30 days after each election, the Elections Commission must then compile and categorize the information it receives in those reports and submit to the legislature a report describing that information in detail and describing in detail each complaint, whether formal or informal, the commission received concerning allegations of fraud or misconduct in the election.

Additionally, the bill requires each district attorney receiving a report described above from a municipal clerk or board of election commissioners, no later than 30 days after each election, to investigate and make a charging decision with respect to each allegation contained in the report and inform the State Prosecutors Office in the Department of Administration of each charging decision.

Who's behind it

3 senators are its authors⁠. All 3 are Republicans.

7 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.