A bill for an act relating to the conduct of elections and voter registration by providing when candidates to fill county office vacancies are to be nominated at the primary election, relating to signature requirements on nomination petitions, requiring legislative council approval of certain expenditures for implementation of the Help America Vote Act, relating to use of substitute precinct election officials, relating to ballot printing requirements, modifying closing hours of the polls, modifying identification requirements at the polls, providing grounds for challenging a voter's qualifications, relating to preparation of tally lists, striking the authority of the state or county commissioner to issue a notice of a technical infraction, prohibiting candidates or incumbents from being observers when absentee ballots are counted, clarifying that certain confined persons may vote an absentee ballot in person at the commissioner's office, imposing a prohibition on absentee ballot couriers, prohibiting certain communications when absentee ballots are being counted, exempting military and overseas voters from the identification and verification requirements for mail voter registrants, relating to multiple requests for an absentee ballot for a military and overseas voter, relating to changes of address and replacement absentee ballots for military and overseas voters, exempting military and overseas voters from absentee ballot return restrictions, allowing certain military voters to return absentee ballots from within the United States, striking a requirement related to counting federal write=in ballots, relating to establishment of satellite, absentee voting stations, defining voter registration list, requiring identification of certain voter registrants, relating to signature requirements on voter registration applications, including the social security administration as a verification source for certain voter registration information, requiring verification of certain information on all voter registrations received by mail, specifying the county commissioner as the official responsible for voter registration verification, limiting the dates of special elections on public measures for certain political subdivisions and school corporations, and including effective and applicability date provisions.