Bill Text: AZ HB2536 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Ballot contents disclosure; prohibition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-02 - Referred to Senate GOV Committee [HB2536 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2015-HB2536-Engrossed.html
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State of Arizona House of Representative Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015
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HOUSE BILL 2536 |
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AN ACT
amending section 16-1018, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to elections offenses.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-1018, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-1018. Additional unlawful acts by persons with respect to voting; classification
A person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor:
1. Knowingly electioneers on election day within a polling place or in a public manner within seventy‑five feet of the main outside entrance of a polling place or on‑site early voting location established by a county recorder pursuant to section 16‑542, subsection A.
2. Intentionally disables or removes from the polling place, on‑site early voting location or custody of an election official a voting machine or a voting record.
3. Knowingly removes an official ballot from a polling place before closing the polls.
4. Shows the another voter's ballot or the machine on which the another voter has voted to any person after it is prepared for voting in such a manner as to reveal the contents, except to an authorized person lawfully assisting the voter.
5. Knowingly solicits a voter to show the voter's ballot, or receives from a voter a ballot prepared for voting, unless the person is an election official or unless otherwise authorized by law.
6. Knowingly receives an official ballot from a person other than an election official having charge of the ballots.
7. Knowingly delivers an official ballot to a voter, unless the voter is an election official.
8. Except for a completed ballot transmitted by an elector by fax or other electronic format pursuant to section 16‑543, knowingly places a mark on the voter's ballot by which it can be identified as the one voted by the voter.
9. After having received a ballot as a voter, knowingly fails to return the ballot to the election official before leaving the polling place or on‑site early voting location.
