Florida SB 7066: Election Administration

Bill Text

7066 
Ballot Processes 
2019-02-28T10:48:06Z 
Modifying requirements for updating voter registration signatures, to conform; revising dates relating to the selection and qualification of a lieutenant governor running mate, to conform; modifying the Provisional Ballot Voter’s Certificate and Affirmation; establishing a process to cure a provisional ballot with a signature deficiency, etc. 
Proposed Bill 
2019 
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2020-01-01T00:00:00Z 
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 Florida Senate - 2019 (PROPOSED BILL) SPB 7066 

 FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Ethics and Elections 

 582-02532A-19 20197066pb 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to ballot processes; amending 98.077, 
 3 F.S.; modifying requirements for updating voter 
 4 registration signatures, to conform; amending s. 
 5 99.063, F.S.; revising dates relating to the selection 
 6 and qualification of a lieutenant governor running 
 7 mate, to conform; amending s. 100.061, F.S.; revising 
 8 the date of the primary election; amending s. 101.048, 
 9 F.S.; modifying the Provisional Ballot Voter’s 
 10 Certificate and Affirmation; establishing a process to 
 11 cure a provisional ballot with a signature deficiency; 
 12 establishing related requirements and deadlines; 
 13 revising requirements for the canvassing and counting 
 14 of provisional ballots; creating exemptions; requiring 
 15 the supervisor to process a signature update following 
 16 submission of a valid provisional ballot cure 
 17 affidavit; modifying post-election elector 
 18 notification processes, to conform; amending 101.151, 
 19 F.S.; revising requirements for department rules 
 20 governing ballot design; amending s. 101.62, F.S.; 
 21 revising deadlines for requests for, and the mailing 
 22 of, vote-by-mail ballots; removing a limitation as to 
 23 when the supervisor may begin mailing domestic vote 
 24 by-mail ballots before an election; amending s. 
 25 101.64, F.S.; modifying the vote-by-mail ballot 
 26 Voter’s Certificate; amending s. 101.65, F.S.; 
 27 modifying vote-by-mail ballot instructions, to 
 28 conform; amending 101.68, F.S.; clarifying that 
 29 supervisors must immediately compare voters’ 
 30 signatures on vote-by-mail ballots upon receipt; 
 31 providing for earlier canvassing of vote-by-mail 
 32 ballots; prescribing additional notification 
 33 requirements for certain vote-by-mail ballots with 
 34 defective signatures; creating exemptions; revising 
 35 the deadline by which vote-by-mail ballot cure 
 36 affidavits must be submitted; requiring the supervisor 
 37 to process a signature update following submission of 
 38 a valid vote-by-mail ballot cure affidavit; modifying 
 39 post-election elector notification processes, to 
 40 conform; amending 101.6923, F.S.; modifying special 
 41 vote-by-mail ballot instructions for certain first 
 42 time voters, to conform; amending 102.111, F.S.; 
 43 revising the date on which the Elections Canvassing 
 44 Commission certifies the primary election; adding an 
 45 additional meeting of the Elections Canvassing 
 46 Commission for certification of ballot votes in any 
 47 general election races with pending recounts; amending 
 48 s. 102.112, F.S.; modifying deadlines for submitting 
 49 certain county ballot returns to the Department of 
 50 State, to conform; amending s. 102.141, F.S.; 
 51 modifying immediate reporting times for certain types 
 52 of ballots and deadlines for unofficial results in 
 53 primary elections and certain general election 
 54 contests; amending s. 102.166, F.S.; modifying 
 55 certification requirements for voting systems to 
 56 require the functionality to simultaneously sort and 
 57 count ballot overvotes and undervotes; providing an 
 58 effective date. 
 59 
 60 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 61 
 62 Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 98.077, Florida 
 63 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 64 98.077 Update of voter signature.— 
 65 (4) Except as authorized in ss. 101.048 and 101.68: 
 66 (a) All signature updates for use in verifying vote-by-mail 
 67 and provisional ballots must be received by the appropriate 
 68 supervisor of elections no later than the start of the 
 69 canvassing of vote-by-mail ballots by the canvassing board. 
 70 (b) The signature on file at the start of the canvass of 
 71 the vote-by-mail ballots is the signature that shall be used in 
 72 verifying the signature on the vote-by-mail and provisional 
 73 ballot certificates. 
 74 Section 2. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 99.063, 
 75 Florida Statutes, are amended to read 
 76 99.063 Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.— 
 77 (1) No later than 5 p.m. of the 14th 9th day following the 
 78 primary election, each candidate for Governor shall designate a 
 79 Lieutenant Governor as a running mate. Such designation must be 
 80 made in writing to the Department of State. 
 81 (2) No later than 5 p.m. of the 14th 9th day following the 
 82 primary election