Bill Amendment: AZ SB1357 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Early ballots; affidavits; privacy
Status: 2024-03-20 - House Committee action: do pass amended/strike-everything, voting: (6-3-0-0-0-0) [SB1357 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2024-SB1357-HOUSE_-_Municipal_Oversight_Elections.html
Fifty-sixth Legislature Municipal Oversight & Elections
Second Regular Session S.B. 1357
PROPOSED
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1357
(Reference to Senate engrossed bill)
Page 2, strike lines 2 through 11, insert "self-addressed envelope that complies with section 16-545, and:
1. Through 2025, the instructions shall include the following statement:
In order to be valid and counted, the ballot and mail affidavit must be delivered to the office of the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections or may be deposited at any polling place in the county not later than 7:00 p.m. on election day. The ballot will not be counted without the voter's signature on the envelope.
(WARNING — It is a felony to offer or receive any compensation for a ballot.)
2. Beginning in 2026, the instructions shall include the following statement:
In order to be valid and counted, the mail affidavit that contains the mail ballot must have the voter's signature on the envelope and must be returned to the office of the county recorder by any one of the following methods:
(a) Delivering it to the office of the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections not later than 7:00 p.m. on election day.
(b) Depositing it at any polling place in the county not later than 7:00 p.m. on election day.
(c) Bringing the ballot to any polling place in the county not later than 7:00 p.m. on election day and choosing to present valid identification that complies with section 16-579, subsection A, paragraph 1, Arizona Revised Statutes.
(WARNING — It is a felony to offer or receive any compensation for a ballot.)"
Amend title to conform
