Signed by Governor Gary Herbert

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires counties to provide an in-person voting option for the 2020 presidential election.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the lieutenant governor’s office to enforce the appropriate protocols to ensure voters’ safety in the 2020 general election (Sec. 1). 

• Requires poll workers to offer traditional in-person voting at an indoor or outdoor voting facility (Sec. 1).

• Requires dropboxes to be installed for voters to drop off their absentee ballot by 8 p.m. on Election Day (Sec. 1).

• Requires counties with outdoor voting to (Sec. 1):

• Have more than one outdoor polling location that must be open during both early and regular voting hours; 

• Allow both walk-up and drive-thru methods to access the outdoor site;

• Enforce social distancing guidelines to protect voters and poll workers;

• Create a process to ensure that voters can safely and securely vote at the booth or in their car; and

• Allow anyone in line by the poll’s closure at 8 p.m. to vote.

• Prohibits anyone from possessing someone else’s absentee ballot, unless the individual is (Sec. 2):

• A postal worker;

• An election official;

• Someone authorized to deliver military-overseas ballot; or

• Someone who lives with the person possessing the ballot.

• Specifies that unlawfully possessing someone else’s ballot is a class A misdemeanor (Sec. 2).

• Specifies that this bill takes effect immediately upon passage (Sec. 4).

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