Absentee voting; no excuse required, registered voters.
Summary
Absentee voting; no excuse required. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. This bill was incorporated into SB 111.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 8, 2020
Last action Jan 14, 2020
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Full legislative history
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Committee
1
Jan 8, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Jan 8, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102746D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mamie Locke
DDemocratic
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