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Hearing on changes to advance voting and registration deadlines sparks access and technical concerns
Summary
House Bill 24-53 would shift voter-registration and advance-voting dates (adding days at the front end of mailing and extending application lead time). Proponents said the changes would improve mail timing and processing; opponents and clerks warned the registration shift and Sunday/Monday scheduling raise access and statutory issues.
The Committee on Elections heard testimony on House Bill 24-53, a proposal to adjust the timing of advance voting, ballot mailing and voter registration in order to give election officials more time to process and voters more time to receive and return mail ballots.
Proponent Representative Sandy Pickert (District 88) described the bill as adding days to the front end of the election calendar: advance voting would begin earlier so ballots could be mailed on Monday rather than Wednesday, the advance-voting period would increase from 20…
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