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Committee Hears Support for Allowing Preprocessing of Absentee Ballots and Removing Outer Envelope for Hand-Delivered Ballots
Summary
Supporters including town clerks and voting-rights groups told the committee Senate Bill 218 would let clerks open absentee outer envelopes before Election Day to verify signatures and give voters a chance to cure mistakes, and remove outer envelopes for ballots hand-delivered to clerks.
Supporters of Senate Bill 218 told the House Election Law Committee that allowing municipalities to pre-process absentee ballots — opening outer envelopes to verify signatures in the days before Election Day — would speed election day operations and allow clerks to notify voters of defects so ballots could be cured.
Kaylee Estradio of Open Democracy told the committee that pre-processing ‘‘saved time on election day and allowed voters…
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