2014 Budget Session - Bill Title - SF0025

AN ACT relating to elections; repealing provisions related to ballot labels; making conforming amendments; amending requirements for forms; providing for notification of voter registration information updates and purges; providing for secretary of state directives; removing provisions for segregated temporary registration lists; removing requirement that secretary of state certify that registration system is operational; providing that registration through the federal postcard application is valid for one election cycle; amending certification of names of party nominees; providing conforming amendment for registration period statutes by decreasing deadline for changing party affiliation; amending order of offices listed on ballots; amending requirements for petitions; amending requirements for absentee ballots; amending requirements for delivery and posting of diagrams of voting devices and sample ballots; providing for use of absentee ballots at special elections; removing secretary of state from process for special mail ballot elections; providing for independent candidate review of voting machines; amending privacy requirements for voting booths; amending tabulation and certification of elections to include circuit court judges and special district board members; and providing for an effective date.