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House adopts strike-all expanding in-person absentee access, creates study on early voting
Summary
Lawmakers adopted a strike-all amendment to a Senate bill to allow in-person absentee ballots to be cast on OMR machines at circuit clerks’ offices, add a caregiving excuse for absentee voting, and create a study committee on early voting. Floor sponsor said measure likely lacks votes to override a veto.
The House adopted a strike-all amendment on a Senate bill that inserts several voting-related provisions: it would let voters casting in-person absentee ballots in circuit clerks’ offices mark their ballots on the same OMR (optical mark recognition) machines used on election day, add a caregiving excuse for absentee voting, and create a study committee to examine early voting.
The floor sponsor told members the strike-all would “insert into this bill the language that…
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