Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF0991

1E Modifying certain election administration provisions; modifying and
clarifying residence violation notice requirements; clarifying residency
requirements for eligible voter within a redrawn political boundary; modifying
registered voter signature requirements; providing for precinct house number or
street address changes made by a municipality; modifying certain duties of the
county auditor relating to registration mail verification requirements;
modifying requirements for the reporting of deceased voters; modifying notice
requirements for precinct caucuses; expanding general eligibility requirements
for persons who cannot write and use of power of attorney; requiring a filing
fee for certain write-in candidates; providing time lines for municipal boundary
adjustment procedures; requiring local officials to make voting stations
purchased with funds from the Help America Vote Act account available to other
local jurisdictions; modifying certain provisions relating to election law,
instructions and notice of filing posting requirements relating to electronic
availability on the secretary of state Web site; modifying election results
reporting system candidate filing requirements; clarifying names on ballot
identical descriptive words requirements; modifying certain election day
activities relating to applications, right to be absent from work for the
purpose of voting; lingering near polling place, voters bill of rights, locking
of ballot boxes; prohibiting voters from taking pictures of a voter's ballot;
specifying certain county auditor duties for election results reporting for
state primary and general elections and certain county canvassing requirements;
modifying certain ballot preparation requirements; modifying regular state
primary, notice of special election, special election and candidate filing times
requirements for a vacancy in the office of United States senator; providing for
continuity of Congress for vacancies in the United States House of
Representatives, requiring the governor to issue a writ of election to fill the
vacancy by special election; modifying time lines for municipal general election
resolutions or ordinances, modifying special election affidavit of candidacy and
notice of filing date requirements, regulating municipal election results
reporting systems, candidate filing and certain precinct voting requirements and
modifying sample ballot publication and posting requirements; modifying certain
school district election provisions relating to resolutions requiring primary in
certain circumstances, special election questions, multiple vacancies in school
district offices and sample ballot posting; regulating school district
transitions, election results reporting systems, candidate filing and certain
precinct voting requirements; modifying examination of new voting systems
required certification requirements; modifying certain requirements for
alternation of names of candidates on ballots for state primary and state
general elections; prohibiting voters and write-in candidates from affixing
labels to certain optical scan ballots and imposing penalties; clarifying
certain charitable contributions legal expenditures requirements; specifying
certain municipal annexation and incorporation date prohibitions; specifying
certain requirements of joint resolution relating to annexation; clarifying the
relationship between failing to comply with regularly scheduled elections
provisions and annexation validity; repealing provisions relating to school
elections use of the voter registration system and state voting systems
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