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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to elections; amending s. 97.021,
3 F.S.; providing a definition; amending s. 101.015,
4 F.S.; requiring the Department of State to adopt rules
5 relating to the security of certain voting procedures;
6 requiring the department to create a certain manual;
7 requiring the department to adopt by rule certain
8 minimum security standards; requiring a county
9 canvassing board to enforce such standards; requiring
10 a county canvassing board to reconcile certain ballots
11 and forms; requiring the department to adopt rules for
12 the physical security of election materials and
13 technology, absentee vote process reporting and
14 observation, and manual cross-checks for certain
15 systems; amending s. 101.131, F.S.; authorizing
16 political action committees and political committe es
17 to have poll watchers in polling rooms and early
18 voting areas; revising the date before which poll
19 watchers must be designated; revising the information
20 that must be on a poll watcher's identification badge;
21 prohibiting a poll watcher from wearing another poll
22 watcher's identification badge; creating s. 101.132,
23 F.S.; authorizing certain persons to designate
24 watchers for absentee vote processing locations;
25 providing requirements for absentee vote processing
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26 location work areas and the number of watchers who may
27 observe in each area; providing requirements for such
28 watchers; requiring the department to adopt by rule a
29 certain manual; requiring the department to prescribe
30 certain forms; requiring a supervisor of elections to
31 accept certain forms; prohibiting certain persons from
32 being designated as watchers; providing requirements
33 for watcher identification badges; amending s. 101.21,
34 F.S.; providing requirements for printed ballots and
35 voter certificate envelopes; requiring a supervisor of
36 elections to complete a certain report; requiring a
37 county canvassing board to review and approve such
38 report before an election is certified; amending s.
39 101.545, F.S.; requiring the retention of envelopes,
40 seals, and video recordings for a certain period;
41 authorizing the destruction of certain election
42 materials after a certain audit is completed; amending
43 s. 101.5614, F.S.; requiring certain information to be
44 entered on certain forms; requiring certain hand-
45 counted audits; providing requirements for such
46 audits; prohibiting a tabulator from using networking
47 communication hardware; authorizing a supervisor to
48 collect certain data in a certain manner; requiring
49 certain ballots to be duplicated in the presence of
50 certain watchers; authorizing a duplicate to be made
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51 by hand duplication; authorizing certain persons to
52 observe the duplication of ballots; requiring a county
53 canvassing board to convene in the presence of certain
54 parties for certain discussions before certification
55 of the election; amending s. 101.595, F.S.; requir ing
56 a certain audit to be conducted after each election;
57 providing requirements for the audit; requiring the
58 department to adopt rules; amending s. 101.6103, F.S.;
59 requiring a supervisor of elections to mail ballots
60 with certain envelopes; requiring a supervisor of
61 elections to use separate postal service billing
62 permits for certain purposes; revising actions an
63 elector must take upon receipt of his or her ballot;
64 providing requirements for a voter certificate
65 envelope; requiring an elector who requests a
66 replacement ballot to provide certain identification;
67 revising the circumstances in which such a ballot is
68 counted; requiring a supervisor of elections to keep
69 such ballots stored in an area secured in a specified
70 manner; amending s. 101.6104, F.S.; requiring a ballot
71 to be treated in a certain manner upon county
72 canvassing board receipt of a challenge of a voter
73 certificate envelope or cure affidavit signature;
74 amending s. 101.62, F.S.; requiring a person
75 requesting a vote-by-mail ballot to provide and attest
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76 to an allowed reason for such request; providing such
77 allowed reasons; requiring voters to provide certain
78 information in certain written requests for vote-by-
79 mail ballots; removing certain applicability
80 provisions; providing information that a supervisor of
81 elections must record for each vote-by-mail ballot
82 request; revising a statement that must be marked on
83 certain envelopes; amending s. 101.64, F.S.; revising
84 the specified envelopes that a supervisor of elections
85 must enclose with a vote-by-mail ballot; revising the
86 voter's certificate; amending s. 101.65, F.S.;
87 revising the instructions that a supervisor of
88 elections must enclose with a vote-by-mail ballot;
89 amending s. 101.655, F.S.; requiring a supervisor of
90 elections to provide bipartisan supervised voting for
91 certain absent electors at the request of certain
92 persons; providing requirements for the transportation
93 and chain of custody for ballots delivered to and
94 completed by certain absent voters; requiring a
95 supervised voting team to verify an elector's identity
96 in a certain manner; amending s. 101.68, F.S.;
97 requiring a supervisor of elections to subject a
98 certificate signature, a voter certificate envelope,
99 and ballot material to certain verification; requiring
100 a supervisor of elections to evaluate certain photo
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101 identification in a certain manner; requiring a county
102 canvassing board to complete the canvass of certain
103 ballots within a certain period; requiring a county
104 canvassing board to make certain ballot comparisons
105 according to certain records and reports; specifying
106 that certain identification is considered ballot
107 material and must be presented to certain persons;
108 providing that certain envelopes are considered
109 illegal; requiring logs of certain information to be
110 kept; requiring certain materials to be preserved in a
111 specified manner and reviewed for certain purposes;
112 requiring a supervisor of elections to provide direct
113 links to his or her website in certain circumstances;
114 revising the vote-by-mail cure affidavit; authorizing
115 certain persons to inspect certain materials;
116 requiring the review of certain materials in certain
117 circumstances; requiring a supervisor of elections to
118 provide certain persons with certain access to certain
119 ballot materials; prohibiting a supervisor of
120 elections from limiting the time available to certain
121 persons to complete a cure affidavit review during
122 certain periods; providing that a ballot for which a
123 cure affidavit protest is rejected shall be counted;
124 requiring county canvassing board minutes to contain
125 certain information; requiring a supervisor of
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126 elections to research certain electors to determine
127 their voter eligibility; providing that certain
128 information must be made available to certain persons;
129 amending s. 101.69, F.S.; revising the process for
130 marking certain returned ballots as canceled;
131 requiring certain materials to be submitted to the
132 Office of Election Crimes and Security for
133 investigation; revising locations at which secure
134 ballot intake stations may be placed; requiring
135 certain daily inspection of secure ballot intake
136 stations during early voting; subjecting a supervisor
137 of elections to a civil penalty in certain
138 circumstances; amending s. 101.6921, F.S.; revising
139 the specified envelopes that a supervisor of elections
140 must enclose with a vote-by-mail ballot; revising the
141 voter's certificate; amending s. 101.6923, F.S.;
142 revising the instructions that a supervisor of
143 elections must enclose with certain vote-by-mail
144 ballots; amending s. 102.012, F.S.; requiring a
145 supervisor of elections to recruit absentee vote
146 processing workers; requiring such workers to
147 subscribe to an oath or affirmation and meet certain
148 qualifications; amending s. 102.014, F.S.; requiring a
149 supervisor of elections to conduct required training
150 for absentee vote processing workers; requiring the
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151 department to develop certain uniform training
152 procedures for use by supervisors of elections;
153 requiring such workers to demonstrate a working
154 knowledge of certain laws and procedures; requiring a
155 supervisor of elections to appoint a replacement for
156 such a worker in certain circumstances; prohibiting an
157 absent vote processing worker from working in a work
158 area unless he or she completes certain minimum
159 training requirements; requiring the department to
160 create and adopt by rule an absentee vote processing
161 procedures manual; providing requirements for such
162 manual; requiring the department to revise the manual
163 as necessary; amending s. 102.141, F.S.; revising
164 county canvassing board composition; authorizing a
165 supervisor of elections to appoint a municipal
166 official as a substitute member of the county
167 canvassing board; requiring a specified quorum of the
168 county canvassing board for certain proceedings;
169 requiring real-time video monitoring of county
170 canvassing board meetings; requiring meeting minutes
171 to be published on the supervisor of elections'
172 website; requiring the county canvassing board to
173 review certain reports each day and take certain
174 actions; requiring the county canvassing board to
175 review certain information before certifying an
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176 election; requiring the county canvassing board to
177 address certain discrepancies in a certain manner;
178 requiring a special election in certain circumstances;
179 authorizing the removal from office of the supervisor
180 of elections in certain circumstances; requiring a
181 manual recount to use original paper ballots and voter
182 certificate envelopes in certain circumstances;
183 revising requirements for a county canvassing board
184 conducting a recount; amending s. 102.166, F.S.;
185 authorizing a candidate to request a manual recount of
186 certain votes after a first set of unofficial returns
187 in certain circumstances; revising the percentage of
188 votes by which a candidate is defeated upon which a
189 manual recount of certain votes is required; providing
190 requirements for such recounts; authorizing certai n
191 governmental entities to request a manual recount in
192 certain circumstances; requiring a certain audit to be
193 conducted upon delivery of a certain petition;
194 providing requirements for such audit; requiring a
195 manual audit in certain races for which a specified
196 discrepancy exists; conforming a cross-reference;
197 amending s. 104.21, F.S.; providing that an election
198 worker who changes certain envelope information or
199 markings commits a misdemeanor; providing criminal
200 penalties; providing criminal penalties; creating s.
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201 104.291, F.S.; providing that a poll worker who wears
202 the poll worker identification badge of another
203