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Committee advances strike-all on House Bill 177 to allow in-person absentee ballots to go directly into OMR machines
Summary
A senate elections committee approved a strike-all amendment to House Bill 177 to permit in-person absentee ballots to be cast directly into optical mark-recognition equipment and removed an obsolete ballot-harvesting provision; the committee kept rules requiring absentee excuses.
A state Senate elections committee approved a strike-all amendment to House Bill 177, advancing language that would allow in-person absentee ballots to be cast directly into optical mark-recognition (OMR) voting machines rather than placed into envelopes.
The committee's action replaces the bill's previous text with the committee's early-voting language and removes an earlier provision related to ballot harvesting that committee members said had already been…
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