Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends election law related to nominations and procedures for proposed amendments to the state constitution.

Highlights:

• Establishes in the years in which the Constitution requires, or at other times when the general assembly by law provides for, a vote on the question of calling a convention and revising the Constitution, the governor will at least 60 days before the general election issue a proclamation directing that at the general election there be proposed to the people the following question: Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and propose amendments or amendments to same? (Sec. 2-1).

• Prohibits statewide elected officials and members of the General Assembly from holding more than one elective office at a time. All other elected officials cannot hold more than one elective office at the same level of government at a time (Sec. 3-1).

• Authorizes a person who has filed nomination papers with the commissioner to withdraw a candidate no later than the 69th  before the primary election by notifying the commissioner in writing (Sec. 6.b).

• Specifies before signing an oath, the attesting registered voter will present to the precinct election official proof of the voter’s identity (Sec. 28-4).

• Authorizes a precinct election official to, at the request of the commissioner who is conducting the election, communicate the election results by telephone and deliver the election results (Sec. 30-1).

• Specifies when election results are delivered in person to the commissioner who is conducting the election, the printed results and memory device of the voting equipment will be returned to the commissioner on election night by two precinct election officials who are of different political parties in the case of a partisan election, or by a person designated by the commissioner, including but not limited to a state or local law enforcement officer (Sec. 32).

• Requires the state commissioner include on the state commissioner's internet site an application through which a voter can track the voter’s absentee ballot request form and absentee ballot. The application will provide all of the following information (Sec. 37):

• Whether the voter returned a ballot in person, by mail, or by voting in person at a satellite location;

• The date the absentee ballot request form was received by the county commissioner;

• The date the absentee ballot was mailed or given to the voter;

• The date the absentee ballot was received by the county commissioner;

• The date the county commissioner opened the outer envelope; and

• Whether there is a problem with the absentee ballot request form or absentee ballot that requires correction by the voter, along with instructions for the voter to contact the county commissioner as soon as possible to resolve the issue.

• Authorizes the county commissioner of elections to use a facsimile of the official county seal or a modified facsimile of the official county seal for election duties (Sec. 43.b).

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