SPONSOR: Bland Manlove
This bill requires the Secretary of State to establish a process for automatic voter registration.
The Department of Revenue and the Department of Corrections shall periodically provide the Secretary of State's office with information to assist in automatic voter registration, as specified in the bill.
The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide lists of nonbinding recommendations for inclusion on voter registration lists to local election authorities. Local election authorities can decline to register individuals not verified to be eligible to vote and remove those names from such lists.
Within 60 days of receipt of a proposed voter registration list, the local election authority must send notice of potential automatic registration, including a paid postcard for purposes of declining registration, to each individual on a voter registration list. If, after a period of 30 days, the postcard is not returned to the local election authority, the individual will be registered to vote.
This bill is the same as HB 1007 (2023) and HB 2278 (2022).
Statutes affected: