An Act to revise certain provisions regarding the voting rights of felony offenders.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 12-4-18 be AMENDED:
12-4-18. Voter Registration--Mentally Incompetent--Deceased--Felony Incarceration.
The clerk of courts shall, within fifteen days after the close of each month, prepare and deliver to the auditor an abstract from the records of the names of persons declared mentally incompetent in the preceding month. The notice shall be sent to the county auditor of the county in which the person declared incompetent resides. The county auditor shall remove from the master registration list the names of persons identified in accordance with the information provided pursuant to this section and names of those sentenced to imprisonment in the federal penitentiary system and may remove names published in an obituary.
Voter registration records
maintained in or transmitted to the statewide voter registration file
shall be matched with the death records maintained as vital
statistics records by the Department of Health and the records of
those
incarcerated in the state penitentiary system for felony
convictions maintained by the
Unified Judicial System
Department
of Corrections.
Any voter identified as deceased or who is
serving a sentence
(1) Currently incarcerated;
(2) On probation supervision; or
(3) On parole supervision;
for a felony conviction shall be removed from the voter registration records. The State Board of Elections may promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, determining how voter registration records shall be matched.