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Committee advances bill to let voters track absentee ballots and get confidential email alerts
Summary
The Senate Government Organization Committee reported a committee substitute for Senate Bill 802 that would require the Secretary of State to publish status events for absentee ballots and allow voters to opt in to confidential email notifications; the measure was referred under its original double committee reference to Judiciary.
The Senate Government Organization Committee voted to report a committee substitute for Senate Bill 802 that would require the Secretary of State to maintain a public online tracker of absentee-ballot events and let voters opt in to confidential email alerts.
Committee Counsel told members, “This bill creates a new section of code that concerns tracking and providing notifications of the status of absentee ballots.” The substitute would require the Secretary of State to publish when an absentee ballot application was received and accepted or denied (with a brief reason and instructions to cure), and to list the dates a ballot was mailed, received by the county clerk, accepted or rejected (with reasons and cure…
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