Bill Text - HB326 (2021)

(New Title) requiring town and city clerks to make electronic lists of persons who have applied for absentee ballots available to candidates upon request.


Revision: May 17, 2021, 3:44 p.m.

Election Law and Municipal Affairs

May 17, 2021

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11/08

 

 

Amendment to HB 326

 

Amend the title of the bill by replacing it with the following:

 

AN ACT requiring town and city clerks to make electronic lists of persons who have applied for absentee ballots available to candidates upon request.

 

Amend the bill by replacing section 1 with the following:

 

1  Absentee Ballot Lists; Electronic Copies.  Amend RSA 657:15, II to read as follows:

II.  Candidates whose names appear on the ballot and persons bearing notarized requests or copies of notarized requests from candidates whose names appear on the ballot may obtain a list of absentee voter applicants from the clerk, excluding voters who have presented to the supervisors of the checklist valid protective orders pursuant to RSA 173-B.  If requested this list may be supplied electronically from the information in the statewide centralized voter registration database.

2021-1525s

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires that town and city clerks make electronic lists of absentee voter applicants available to candidates who request them.