elections; petition
amendments
SB 1285 modifies the procedures and requirements for filing referendum, initiative and recall petitions and establishes the Voter Registration and Mailing Address Study Committee.
§ Requires the county recorder to provide a list of registered voters in the county and their birth dates, not just birth year, to the Secretary of State.
§ Requires candidate nomination papers and petitions to contain the candidate’s actual residence address or a description of the candidate’s place of residence beginning on January 1, 2003, except for a candidate for presidential elector, which contains a general effective date.
§ Requires nomination petitions to contain the actual residence address or description of the place of residence of each petition signor and the petition circulator beginning on January 1, 2003.
§ Changes a provision of law so that if an elector who is issued a replacement ballot votes more than once, only the first, rather than the last, ballot received is counted.
§ Stipulates that if a political committee makes expenditures to influence the results of a ballot proposition election, the name of the political committee contained in the statement of organization must contain the official serial number for the petition and a statement of support of or opposition to the ballot measure.
§ Makes any petition signatures gathered prior to filing a $500 threshold exemption statement void for a political committee for an initiative or referendum.
§ Removes a provision that requires a county recorder to certify names of individual petition signers who were disqualified by the county recorder other than those disqualified within the random sample to the Secretary of State.
§ Exempts recall petitions from the requirement that a designation for paid or volunteer circulator be noted on the petition.
§ Stipulates that the name of a candidate other than the name of the candidate being recalled in a recall election shall be placed on the ballot after filing a nomination petition signed by at least two percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for the office in the last election.
§ Requires recall nomination petition signers to be residents of the electoral district of the officer who the recall petition was filed against.
§ Establishes the 9-member Voter Registration and Mailing Address Study Committee to report to the Legislature and the Governor by December 15, 2002 on the following:
Ř Review the signature and address verification process performed by county recorders in registering voters and verifying petition signatures.
Ř Review and analyze record keeping procedures for voter registration forms by county recorders.
Ř Collect information about the prevalence and location of communities in the State that routinely use only a post office box or rural route address.
Ř Consider development of processes and procedures to be used by county recorders to avoid automatic disqualification of signatures, petitions and election forms that indicate a post office box instead of an actual residence address, if the actual residence address is properly indicated on the voter registration form.
Ř Consider development of additional processes and procedures to continue to protect voter registration rolls.
Ř Make recommendations for possible statutory changes relating to the issues considered by the Committee.
§ Makes technical and conforming changes.
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45th Legislature
Second Regular Session 2 June 5, 2002
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