Signed by Governor Doug Ducey

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes guidelines for the amount of time voters have to fix signatures on their ballots.

Highlights:

• Requires the early ballot be accompanied by an envelope bearing on the front the name, official title, and post office address of the recorder or other officer in charge of elections and on the other side a printed affidavit (Sec. 1.A).

• Specifies the face of each envelope in which a ballot is sent to a federal postcard applicant or in which a ballot is returned by the applicant to the recorder or other officer in charge of elections will be in the form prescribed (Sec. 1.B).

• Requires the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections to supply printed instructions to early voters that direct them to sign the affidavit, mark the ballot and return both in the enclosed self-addressed envelope (Sec. 1.C).

• Specifies if the signature is missing, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections will make reasonable efforts to contact the elector, advise the elector of the missing signature, and allow the elector to add their signature no later than 7:PM on Election Day (Sec. 2.A).

• Requires the recorder or other officer in charge of elections to thereafter safely keep the affidavits and early ballots in the recorder's or other officer's office until delivered and tallying of ballots shall not begin any earlier than fourteen days before election day (Sec. 2.B).

• Authorizes the county recorder to send a list of all voters who were issued early ballots to the election board of the precinct in which the voter is registered (Sec. 2.C).

• Specifies the following districts are not affected (Sec. 2.D):

• A special taxing district that is authorized to conduct its elections; and

• A special district mail ballot election.

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