Bill Text: FL H0681 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Challenging a Person Desiring to Vote

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Governmental Affairs Policy (EDCA) [H0681 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0681-Introduced.html

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HB 681

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to challenging a person desiring to vote;
3	amending s. 101.111, F.S.; prohibiting an elector from
4	being challenged on the basis of certain documents;
5	prohibiting certain persons from submitting a formal
6	challenge to an individual's eligibility to register to
7	vote or to vote in any election under certain
8	circumstances; providing an effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1. Present subsection (2) of section 101.111,
13	Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), and new
14	subsections (2) and (3) are added to that section, to read:
15	101.111 Person desiring to vote may be challenged;
16	challenger to execute oath; oath of person challenged;
17	determination of challenge.-
18	(2) An elector may not be challenged on the basis of the
19	following documents:
20	(a) An elector caging document, which is a nonforwardable
21	document that is sent by a person other than a state or local
22	election official and that is returned to the sender or a third
23	party as undelivered or undeliverable despite an attempt to
24	deliver such document to the address of a registered elector or
25	an applicant for registration;
26	(b) A list of individuals compiled from elector caging
27	documents; or
28	(c) A list produced by matching the information of
29	registered electors or applicants for voter registration to a
30	list of individuals who are ineligible to vote by virtue of
31	death, conviction, change of address, mental incompetence,
32	foreign citizenship, age, or otherwise, unless one of the pieces
33	of information matched includes a signature, photograph, or
34	unique identifying number ensuring that the information from
35	each source refers to the same individual.
36	(3) A person who is not a state or local election official
37	may not submit a formal challenge to an individual's eligibility
38	to register to vote or to vote in any election if the basis for
39	such challenge is evidence consisting of an error or omission on
40	any record or paper relating to any application, registration,
41	or other act requisite to voting, and if such error or omission
42	is not material to the individual's eligibility to vote as
43	provided by law.
44	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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