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Committee hears bill to clear provisional voter registrations; county clerks back state rulemaking authority
Summary
Rep. Love presented HB423 to create a statutory process to handle provisional registrations that cannot be verified. The Secretary of State's office and county election administrators supported the bill as a limited cleanup measure; no opponents appeared.
Representative Love opened the hearing on House Bill 423, a targeted bill that directs the Secretary of State's office to adopt procedures for handling provisional voter registrations that cannot be verified.
The sponsor described a situation in which a voter submits a registration with missing or incorrect information, is marked provisional while clerks attempt to confirm identity, and then becomes stuck in "limbo" when verification attempts fail. The bill would authorize rulemaking and a statutory scheme so clerks and the secretary's office can consistently clean up provisional registrants.
Austin James,…
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