H0289B2053A02084 BIL:SRA 06/23/07 #90 A02084
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 289
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE RAPP
Printer's No. 2053
1 Amend Title, page 1, page 1, line 12, by removing the period
2 after "primary" and inserting
3 and for absentee electors files and lists.
4 Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting between lines 14 and 15
5 Section 2. Section 1302.3 of the act, amended December 11,
6 1968 (P.L.1183, No.375), is amended to read:
7 Section 1302.3. Absentee Electors Files and Lists.--(a) The
8 county board of elections shall maintain at its office a file
9 containing the duplicate absentee voter's temporary registration
10 cards of every registered elector to whom an absentee ballot has
11 been sent. Such duplicate absentee voter's temporary
12 registration cards shall be filed by election districts and
13 within each election district in exact alphabetical order and
14 indexed. The registration cards so filed shall constitute the
15 Registered Absentee Voters File for the Primary or Election of
16 (date of primary or election) and shall be kept on file for a
17 period commencing the Tuesday prior to the day of the primary or
18 election until the day following the primary or election or the
19 day the county board of elections certifies the returns of the
20 primary or election, whichever date is later. Such file shall be
21 open to public inspection at all times subject to reasonable
22 safeguards, rules and regulations[.], including requiring any
23 individual who asks to inspect the file to identify himself, and
24 present identification that includes a photograph and signature,
25 by signing his name and printing his name and address on a form
26 prepared by the county board. The county board of elections
27 shall post in a conspicuous public place at its office a sign
28 stating that the file is open to public inspection upon
29 completion of the form.
30 (b) The county board of elections shall [post in a
31 conspicuous public place] maintain at its office a master list
32 arranged in alphabetical order by election districts setting
33 forth the name and residence, and at primaries, the party
34 enrollment, of (1) every military elector to whom an absentee
35 ballot is being sent, each such name to be prefixed with an "M";
36 (2) every bedridden or hospitalized veteran outside the county
37 of his residence who is not registered and to whom an absentee
38 ballot is being sent, each such name to be prefixed with a "V";
39 and (3) every registered elector who has filed his application
40 for an absentee ballot too late for the extraction of his
1 original registration card and to whom a ballot is being sent
2 and every qualified elector who has filed his application for an
3 absentee ballot and is entitled, under provisions of the
4 Permanent Registration Law as now or hereinafter enacted by the
5 General Assembly, to absentee registration prior to or
6 concurrently with the time of voting, each such name to be
7 prefixed with a "C." This list shall be known as the Military,
8 Veterans and Emergency Civilians Absentee Voters File for the
9 Primary or Election of (date of primary or election) [and shall
10 be posted for a period commencing the Tuesday prior to the day
11 of the primary or election until the day following the primary
12 or election or the day on which the county board of elections
13 certifies the returns of the primary or election, whichever date
14 is later]. Such [file] list shall be open to public inspection
15 at all times subject to reasonable safeguards, rules and
16 regulations[.], including requiring any individual who asks to
17 inspect the list to identify himself, and present identification
18 that includes a photograph and signature, by signing his name
19 and printing his name and address on a form prepared by the
20 county board. The county board of elections shall post in a
21 conspicuous public place at its office a sign stating that the
22 list is open to public inspection upon completion of the form.
23 This [posted] list shall not contain any military address or
24 references to any military organization. Upon written request,
25 the county board shall furnish a copy of such list to any
26 candidate or party county chairman.
27 (c) Not less than five days preceding the election, the chief
28 clerk shall prepare a list for each election district showing
29 the names and post office addresses of all voting residents
30 thereof to whom official absentee ballots shall have been
31 issued. Each such list shall be prepared in duplicate, shall be
32 headed "Persons in (give identity of election district) to whom
33 absentee ballots have been issued for the election of (date of
34 election)," and shall be signed by him not less than four days
35 preceding the election. He shall [post the original of each such
36 list in a conspicuous place] maintain the original of each list
37 in the office of the county election board [and see that it is
38 kept so posted until the close of the polls on election day].
39 Each list shall be open to public inspection at all times
40 subject to reasonable safeguards, rules and regulations,
41 including requiring any individual who asks to inspect a list to
42 identify himself, and present identification that includes a
43 photograph and signature, by signing his name and printing his
44 name and address on a form prepared by the county board. The
45 chief clerk shall post in a conspicuous public place in the
46 office of the county election board a sign stating that the list
47 is open to public inspection upon completion of the form. Upon
48 written request, the chief clerk shall furnish a copy of such
49 list to any candidate or party county chairman. He shall cause
50 the duplicate of each such list to be delivered to the judge of
51 election in the election district in the same manner and at the
52 same time as are provided in this act for the delivery of other
53 election supplies, and it shall be the duty of such judge of
54 election to [post] maintain such duplicate list [in a
55 conspicuous place] within the polling place of his district [and
56 see that it is kept so posted] throughout the time that the
57 polls are open. [Upon written request, he shall furnish a copy
58 of such list to any candidate or party county chairman.] The
59 judge of election shall make the duplicate list available for
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1 inspection on the day of the election or primary subject to
2 reasonable safeguards, rules and regulations including requiring
3 any individual who asks to inspect a list to identify himself,
4 and present identification that includes a photograph and
5 signature, by signing his name and printing his name and address
6 on a form prepared by the county board. The judge of election
7 shall post in a conspicuous public place within the polling
8 place of his district a sign stating that the duplicate list is
9 open to public inspection upon completion of the form.
10 Amend Sec. 2, page 2, line 15, by striking out "2" and
11 inserting
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