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Kentucky committee approves bill tightening procedures for precincts, absentee ballots and candidate filings
Summary
The House Elections Committee approved a committee substitute for House Bill 684, which makes multiple changes to precinct staffing, use of school buildings as vote centers, absentee ballot reissuance, video-retention limits and candidate filing requirements; the measure passed the committee with one recorded no vote.
State Representative Jennifer Decker summarized a committee substitute to House Bill 684 on behalf of its sponsors as the House Elections, Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee considered the measure and approved it with favorable expression.
The bill, Decker said, bundles a set of changes developed with the State Board of Elections, the Kentucky County Clerk’s Association and local election officials aimed at “continuous improvement” of election processes. “House bill 684 is the result of that type of collaboration,” Decker said.
The substitute would: allow fewer precinct officers where counties combine precincts into vote centers; require county boards of elections to notify local boards of education and specify the building and dates when a school would be used as a voting center; permit a county board to amend a previously submitted precinct consolidation plan up to 56 days before a special election; allow…
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