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Senate Amendment 5127

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 2279 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1, the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  53.3  ONGOING ABSENTEE
  1  5 VOTER.
  1  6    A registered voter applying for an absentee ballot
  1  7 under section 53.2 using the state commissioner's
  1  8 prescribed form for absentee ballot applications may
  1  9 request to receive an absentee ballot for each
  1 10 subsequent general election in which that person is
  1 11 eligible to vote, and qualifies under section 53.1.
  1 12 The state commissioner shall provide on the prescribed
  1 13 form a check box for this purpose.  For each
  1 14 subsequent general election, the commissioner shall
  1 15 automatically mail an absentee ballot to the
  1 16 requesting voter, or automatically deliver an absentee
  1 17 ballot to a confined person pursuant to section 53.22.
  1 18 A voter's status as an ongoing absentee voter shall be
  1 19 terminated upon the request of the voter, by the
  1 20 commissioner if the voter fails to qualify under
  1 21 section 53.1, or if the voter fails to vote in a
  1 22 subsequent general election."
  1 23    #2.  Title page, line 1, by inserting after the
  1 24 word "to" the following:  "absentee voting by allowing
  1 25 ongoing absentee voter status and by modifying".
  1 26    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 27 
  1 28 
  1 29                               
  1 30 JOE BOLKCOM
  1 31 SF 2279.502 80
  1 32 sc/pj
     

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