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Senate committee backs overhaul of absentee ballot counting and cure rules
Summary
Senators advanced a rewrite of absentee-ballot procedures to require continuous counting, limit early result release, add chain-of-custody safeguards, and create two tiers of ballot 'cure' (in-person for secure issues, written cure for minor errors). The measure passed the committee on voice vote.
Senator Clark Tucker (state senator, District 14) told the Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee that a bill to modernize absentee-ballot handling would protect voters and improve accuracy.
The bill would bar counting absentee ballots before 8:30 a.m. on election day to avoid early results and requires county election boards to begin counting absentee ballots before polls close and to complete that work continuously before tabulating election-day votes. Tucker said the change prevents legitimate votes from being left out when high absentee volume makes…
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