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Senate Study Bill 3160

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 53.11, subsection 1, Code 2003, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  Satellite absentee voting stations may be established
  1  4 throughout the cities and county at the direction of the
  1  5 commissioner and shall be established upon receipt of a
  1  6 petition signed by not less than one hundred eligible electors
  1  7 requesting that a satellite absentee voting station be
  1  8 established at a location to be described on the petition.
  1  9 The number of eligible electors required to sign a petition to
  1 10 establish a satellite absentee voting station is as follows:
  1 11    a.  In a county with a population of less than ten
  1 12 thousand, one hundred eligible electors.
  1 13    b.  In a county with a population of ten thousand or more
  1 14 but less than fifty thousand, two hundred fifty eligible
  1 15 electors.
  1 16    c.  In a county with a population of fifty thousand or more
  1 17 but less than one hundred thousand, five hundred eligible
  1 18 electors.
  1 19    d.  In a county with a population of one hundred thousand
  1 20 or more, seven hundred fifty eligible electors.
  1 21    PARAGRAPH DIVIDED.  A satellite absentee voting station
  1 22 established by petition must be open at least one day for a
  1 23 minimum of six hours.  A satellite absentee voting station
  1 24 established at the direction of the commissioner or by
  1 25 petition may remain open until five p.m. on the day before the
  1 26 election.  
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill changes the petition requirements for
  1 29 establishment of satellite absentee voting stations.
  1 30    Under current law, the county commissioner of elections
  1 31 shall establish a satellite absentee voting station upon
  1 32 petition signed by not less than 100 eligible electors.  The
  1 33 bill changes the petition signature requirements relative to
  1 34 the population of the county as follows:
  1 35    1.  In a county with a population of less than 10,000, 100
  2  1 signatures of eligible electors.
  2  2    2.  In a county with a population of 10,000 or more but
  2  3 less than 50,000, 250 signatures of eligible electors.
  2  4    3.  In a county with a population of 50,000 or more but
  2  5 less than 100,000, 500 signatures of eligible electors.
  2  6    4.  In a county with a population of 100,000 or more, 750
  2  7 signatures of eligible electors.  
  2  8 LSB 6636SC 80
  2  9 sc/sh/8
     

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