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Florida Senate committee moves election bill forward

April 2, 2013 By Ken Tinkler

The Florida Senate’s Committee on Community Affairs approved a Committee Substitute for SB 600 amending the Florida Election Code today on a 5-3 party-line vote.  According to news reports, proposed amendments were also defeated by a similar vote. 

The current version of SB600 would:

  • Require Supervisors of Elections to submit an “election preparation report” before each general election.
  • Limit constitutional amendment ballot language proposed by the Legislature to 75 words in length.
  • Alter the process for voting equipment purchases and dealing with “defects.”
  • Provides for an additional automated audit of the votes cast in an election.
  • Requiring that absentee ballots propvided on the day of an election only be given in cases of “emergency.”
  • Brings back the former requirement of a witness signature on absentee ballots.
  • Expands potential early voting sites.
  • Expands the number of optional early voting days.
  • Alters the canvassing process for absentee ballots.
  • Allows for a cure process for unsigned submitted absentee ballots.
  • Allows for alternative canvassing board members.
  • Limits the term “immediate family,” for purposes of obtaining an absentee ballot, to spouse, parent, child, grandparent, sibling, or spouse’s sibling. 

 

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