Sponsors: Representatives Jarrett, Voss, Pearce et
al.
DP
Committee on Judiciary
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Caucus
and COW
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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.
·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.
·Makes
technical and conforming changes.
HB 2258 passed the Judiciary Committee unamended.
HB 2258 was amended in Committee of the Whole as follows:
·Specifies
that early ballot requests received by a candidate or political committee must
be transmitted within 10 business 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 98 hours.