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Committee advances bill to add automated citizenship and felony-status checks to voter registration process
Summary
House Bill 69 would require the secretary of state’s coordinator of elections to create a portal that checks U.S. citizenship and felony-conviction status before completing voter registrations; committee amended the bill and sent it to Transportation.
Leader Lambreth, sponsor of House Bill 69, told the committee the bill "requires the secretary of state, the coordinator of elections, to create a portal" that would verify whether a registrant is a U.S. citizen and whether the person is a convicted felon whose rights have not been restored.
Lambreth said the measure responds to documented incidents in which convicted felons registered and voted. "There were 15 convicted felons that voted in Sumter County over…
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