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Senate committee advances technical election fixes on runoffs and absentee deadlines
Summary
The committee approved concurrence on a runoff-site clarification and passed an absentee/UOCAVA deadline cleanup; the State Election Commission explained the changes reduce ambiguity and simplify county administration.
The Senate committee took up a set of largely technical election-administration bills and advanced multiple measures by voice vote.
Daniel Schultz, director of the State Election Commission, described one measure intended to clarify how runoffs operate in vote-center-only counties and fix an ambiguity about whether prohibitions on establishing polling sites applied to adding or…
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