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Senator Rausch pushes broad elections infrastructure upgrades to ease municipal burden
Summary
Sen. Rausch and local election officials told the Joint Committee on Election Laws that S.534 would centralize digital reporting, move key deadlines and modernize voter lists to reduce municipal costs and confusion and to improve access for voters.
Senator Rausch urged the Joint Committee on Election Laws to give a favorable report to S.534, an “Upgrades Act” he described as aimed at upgrading elections infrastructure, improving voting access and reducing municipal burden.
Rausch told the committee the bill would centralize digital reporting of preliminary results, move the voter registration deadline that sometimes falls on a Saturday, shift the primary date to a more stable time, enable use of digital voter lists at polling places, and change early-voting and ballot-processing rules to reduce costs and confusion for cities and towns.
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