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Committee sponsors ballot-drop-box prohibition after debating guarded county access
Summary
The committee voted to sponsor 26 LSO 0041, a prohibition on ballot drop boxes, after considering a proposed Senate amendment that would have allowed secured receptacles in government buildings under clerk control.
The Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee voted to sponsor 26 LSO 0041, a bill that would prohibit unsupervised ballot drop boxes and restrict where ballots may be deposited.
Representative Brown moved the bill and members debated an amendment, described as a Senate standing-committee amendment, that would have allowed a single secured receptacle under county-clerk control: the amendment would have permitted a county clerk or a sworn designee to receive ballots through a secured…
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