Sponsors: Representatives Jarrett, Voss, Pearce et
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Committee on Judiciary
Caucus and COW
As Passed the House
HB 2258 makes
substantive and technical changes to Arizona election law.
Provisions
·Requires the county in which a special district or the
greater portion of the assessed valuation is located responsible for holding a
special district election.
·Clarifies write-in candidate law by adding a new
subsection that prohibits a person from running as a write-in candidate in the
primary election if the candidate failed to obtain enough signatures to be
listed on the primary ballot.
·Allows an election officer to use an alternative format
for mailing a sample ballot to a voter whose party is not entitled to
representation on the ballot.
·Specifies that early ballot requests received by a
candidate or political committee must be transmitted within five days to the
appropriate political subdivision, except that if the candidate or political committee
receives the early request within 30 days immediately before the Saturday
before the election, it must be transmitted to the appropriate political
subdivision within 48 hours.
·Adds language to early ballot reporting requirements to
prohibit partial or complete tallies of the early election board from being
released before all precincts have reported or one hour after the polls close,
whichever is first.
·Authorizes an election official to count early ballots
only after confirming election equipment logic and accuracy with the Secretary
of State.
·Requires that a copy of a decision by a governing body
regarding a fire, community park maintenance, or sanitary district boundary
change must be sent to the officer in charge of elections.