Conferees continue talks on voter-roll checks, absentee-ID rules and limits on public-employee electioneering

House and Senate conferees met in a committee of conference to continue negotiating several election-related bills, including annual voter-roll verification, changes to absentee ballot documentation and a restriction on partisan electioneering by public employees, and recessed with plans to reconvene Wednesday at 9 a.m.

The dispute centers on how often to run voter-roll verification and what proof should be required to request absentee ballots. "Accurate and healthy voter rolls are a very important part of voter integrity, and it's very important to the House that we get something that looks much better than every 10 years looking back 4 years," a House conferee said during the session, arguing for annual checks tied to a shorter look-back period.

Why it matters: conferees said advances in the…