SB276 (2014) Detail

Relative to notifying a UOCAVA voter of an invalid absentee ballot application.


SB 276 – VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

2014 SESSION

14-2715

03/04

SENATE BILL 276

AN ACT relative to notifying a UOCAVA voter of an invalid absentee ballot application.

SPONSORS: Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Rep. Fields, Belk 4

COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill requires that notice to a UOCAVA voter of an invalid absentee ballot application be in accordance with procedures for refusing to certify applications of other absentee voters.

This bill was requested by the department of state.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2715

03/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to notifying a UOCAVA voter of an invalid absentee ballot application.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 UOCAVA Voters; Invalid Application. Amend RSA 657:19, X to read as follows:

X. A town or city clerk who finds an absentee ballot application invalid shall provide the UOCAVA voter the reason it is invalid within 7 days in accordance with the procedures in RSA?657:16.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.