FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2021

 

March 10, 2021

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

SENATE BILL 286, as amended

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

1. Strike Senate Judiciary Committee Amendment 2.

 

     2. On page 8, between lines 11 and 12, insert a new Subsection M to read:

 

          "M. If the absent voter election board does not complete its work by 11:00 p.m. on election night, the county clerk shall notify the county sheriff's office that a deputy is required to be present to secure the room or facility where uncounted ballots are locked overnight. If the sheriff indicates a sheriff's deputy is unavailable, the county clerk shall notify the secretary of state who shall request state police to assign a patrolman to secure the room or facility where uncounted ballots are locked overnight. The county clerk shall provide as much notice as is practicable in order to secure law enforcement personnel to secure the uncounted ballots overnight. A sheriff's deputy or state police patrolman is required for overnight watch any time the absent voter election board is not present until the return of the absent voter election board. If neither a sheriff's deputy nor a state police patrolman is available, the county clerk or chief deputy shall remain on site until the return of the absent voter election board and shall allow any challenger or observer to remain present, as well.".,

 

 

                             

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

Gail Chasey, Chair

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 9 For 1 Against

Yes:      9

No:       Townsend

Excused:  Cook, Louis

Absent:   None

 

 

 

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