Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF2743

2E Establishing an address confidentiality program with the secretary of state
for certain domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking victims, including
minors and incapacitated persons in program; requiring certification and
certification cancellation for false attestation; allowing designated address
use for employment address; regulating government agency address use; allowing
ongoing absentee voter registration; prohibiting record disclosure; requiring
secretary of state agency rulemaking; authorizing and providing for the
secretary of state, campaign finance and public disclosure board, and counties,
cities, towns and school districts web sites to link to the web sites of
candidates or advocacy groups under certain conditions; modifying the definition
of noncampaign disbursement to include purchase of magnets with legislator
information; providing for a registration deadline for special elections;
codifying federal court order requirements regarding the use of tribal
identification; modifying certain requirements for interpreter services for
communicatively impaired individuals; allowing quarantined persons to vote by
absentee ballot and allowing all precinct voters in areas under emergency
declaration to vote by absentee ballot; providing for absentee ballot delivery
to voters with disabilities, to participants in residential programs for adults
and for residents of shelters for battered women; authorizing the secretary of
state to inspect polling place rosters and completed voter registration
applications and to examine other required election forms under certain
conditions; prohibiting certain deceptive practices regarding the time, place or
manner of conducting an election; providing for the reporting of false election
information; prescribing criminal penalties; prohibiting voter challenges based
on certain mailings by political parties; clarifying the right to vote for
former felons discharged from sentence and physical assistance for voters;
setting the criteria for voting systems to be used in elections; modifying
certain definitions; making counties and municipalities members of the
cooperative purchasing venture; exempting on a one time basis certain counties
and municipalities from certain electronic voting system program and plan
requirements; modifying the postelection review process; providing for the scope
and conduct of the review; specifying a standard of acceptable performance by a
voting system, providing for additional review under certain conditions, report
of results, and update of vote totals; prohibiting the use of failed voting
systems; providing for costs of review; providing for the time for filing of
election contests; requiring the secretary of state to monitor and evaluate
certain election procedures; requiring certain election judges to transcribe
votes upon rejection by optical scan voting systems; establishing a voting
machines options working group to investigate and recommend to the legislature
by a certain date requirements for additional options for voting equipment in
compliance with a certain applicable federal law to provide private and
independent voting for individuals with disabilities; specifying certain
membership and reporting requirements; expanding expenditure report content
requirements to the amount and date of each expenditure, the address and
employer or self employment occupation of the contributor and the amount and
date of each contribution; making permanent certain help America vote act (HAVA)
rules adopted by the office of the secretary of state, requiring the secretary
of state to make certain amendments; repealing certain provisions relating to
postelection security and certification review
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