Indiana Senate Bill 367 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections
Pending: Senate Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires that the words "absentee ballot" be printed in prominent type with uniform capital letters at the top of every absentee ballot prepared and printed by a county election board. Eliminates the requirement that the third member of a recount commission be a mechanic. Requires that all contracts or leases for the sale or lease of voting equipment, systems, or software entered into, amended, or renewed after June 30, 2011, include a provision that requires the vendor of the voting equipment, systems, or software, in the event of a recount of an election in which the vendor's voting equipment, systems, or software is used, to provide to the recount commission a competent expert who is familiar with the voting equipment, systems, or software used in the election. Provides that multiple recount petitions, in order to be consolidated, must be filed not later than noon on the fourteenth day (in the case of petitions filed by candidates) or seventeenth day (in the case of petitions filed by county chairmen) after election day. (Under current law, the petitions must be filed not later than noon on the seventh day after election day.) Eliminates the requirement that the state recount commission's hearing on a contest petition be convened at least two days after the contest proceeding is ordered.

Recounts and contests.

Sen. Michael Young [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-11		First reading: referred to Committee on Elections
2011-01-11		Authored by Senator M. Young

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0367
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0367.1.html