Signed by Governor Doug Ducey

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires new security features on ballots, such as holograms, hidden numbers visible only under ultraviolet, and others.

Highlights:

• Requires the Arizona Game and Fish Department to assist with voter registration when accepting applications for a license (Sec. 4A).

• Requires the Secretary of State to provide access to the statewide voter registration database to a person designated by the legislature and to the election integrity unit of the attorney general’s office (Sec. 4).

• Establishes ballot fraud countermeasures as at least 3 of the following (Sec. 5):

• Controlled-supply watermarked clearing bank specification security paper;

• Holographic foil acting as a visual deterrent and anti-copy feature;

• Branded overprint of any hologram that personalizes the hologram with customer logo;

• Custom complex security background designs with banknote level security

• Secure variable digital infill;

• Thermochromic, tri-thermochromic, photochromic, or optically variable inks;

• Stealth numbering in ultraviolet, infrared, or taggant inks;

• Multicolored micro-numismatic invisible ultraviolet designs;

• Forensic fraud detection technology; and

• QR code accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter’s ballot as it is processed.

• Authorizes the governor to issue an initial proclamation for a public health emergency for not more than 30 days beginning January 2, 2023 (Sec. 8).

• Requires the governor to submit a written report to a joint committee of the health committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the extension of a state emergency for a public health emergency (Sec. 8).

• Establishes the unreported in-kind political contributions task force fund to consist of legislative appropriations (Sec. 21).

• Requires the joint task force to investigate whether the business or other practices of social media platforms and internet search engines result in unreported political contributions to candidates (Sec. 21).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires new security features on ballots, such as holograms, hidden numbers visible only under ultraviolet, and others.

Highlights:

• Requires the Arizona Game and Fish Department to assist with voter registration when accepting applications for a license (Sec. 4A).

• Requires the Secretary of State to provide access to the statewide voter registration database to a person designated by the legislature and to the election integrity unit of the attorney general’s office (Sec. 4).

• Establishes ballot fraud countermeasures as at least 3 of the following (Sec. 5):

• Controlled-supply watermarked clearing bank specification security paper;

• Holographic foil acting as a visual deterrent and anti-copy feature;

• Branded overprint of any hologram that personalizes the hologram with customer logo;

• Custom complex security background designs with banknote level security

• Secure variable digital infill;

• Thermochromic, tri-thermochromic, photochromic, or optically variable inks;

• Stealth numbering in ultraviolet, infrared, or taggant inks;

• Multicolored micro-numismatic invisible ultraviolet designs;

• Forensic fraud detection technology; and

• QR code accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter’s ballot as it is processed.

• Authorizes the governor to issue an initial proclamation for a public health emergency for not more than 30 days beginning January 2, 2023 (Sec. 8).

• Requires the governor to submit a written report to a joint committee of the health committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the extension of a state emergency for a public health emergency (Sec. 8).

• Establishes the unreported in-kind political contributions task force fund to consist of legislative appropriations (Sec. 21).

• Requires the joint task force to investigate whether the business or other practices of social media platforms and internet search engines result in unreported political contributions to candidates (Sec. 21).

Full Bill Text