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Committee advances elections omnibus with technical fixes; two amendments fail in tie votes
Summary
The Elections, Finance and Government Operations Committee approved House File 13,778 as amended—an elections omnibus combining administrative and technical changes—and sent it to the General Register after two contested amendments failed in 6-6 tie votes.
The Elections, Finance and Government Operations Committee approved House File 13,778 as amended and recommended it be re-referred to the General Register after adopting a broad DE5 that combined a range of election-administration measures.
County elections administrators and the Office of the Secretary of State told the committee the bill contains a number of technical and administrative changes they support, including standardized absentee ballot application deadlines, removal of the permanent absentee box from voter registration forms, clarified procedures for handling ballot-envelope errors, and formalized chain-of-custody planning for ballots. "Creating a ballot…
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