An Act to revise certain provisions regarding voter registration records.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 12-4-18 be AMENDED:
12-4-18.
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
must be sent to
the county auditor of the county in which the person declared
incompetent resides. Each
county coroner shall prepare and deliver to the auditor a list of the
names of persons declared deceased in the preceding month. The
county auditor shall remove from the master registration
list the
file:
(1) The
names of
persons identified as
mentally incompetent, in
accordance with the information provided pursuant to this section;
and
(2) The
names of
those
persons
sentenced to
imprisonment in the federal penitentiary system
and may remove;
and
(3) The
names
published in an obituary
of deceased persons, in accordance with the information provided
pursuant to this section.
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 felony convictions maintained by the Unified Judicial System. Any voter identified as deceased or who is serving a sentence 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.