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Committee adopts amendment and approves bill consolidating polling‑place notices
Summary
Senate Bill 293, consolidating required polling‑place postings into a single statute, passed the committee as amended. County clerks and some senators raised practical concerns about timing and placement of required materials; sponsors said those implementation issues can be addressed in follow‑up legislation.
A Senate committee voted to approve Senate Bill 293 as amended, a measure that consolidates the various statutorily required postings for polling places into a single code section.
The State Board of Election Commissioners and board staff told senators the bill’s purpose is to simplify polling‑place compliance by locating all required notices and postings in one statute. Chris Madison, director for the State Board of Election Commissioners, said the measure was intended to help poll workers by putting “all of the required postings…
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