Bill Information

An Act amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, defining "infamous crime"; further providing for powers and duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, for powers and duties of county boards, for qualifications of election officers and for vacancies in election boards and related matters; establishing special overseers; further providing for public buildings to be used where possible and portable polling places; providing for issuance of watcher certificates by political parties; further providing for number of signers required for nomination petitions of candidates at primaries; providing for Internet ballots for certain military electors; further providing for preparation of voting machines by county election boards, for time for opening and closing polls, for presence of certain persons at polling place prohibited, for manner of applying to vote, for regulations in force at polling places, for absentee electors files and lists, for delivering of mailing ballots, for notice to county board of elections, for date of application for absentee ballots, for voting by absentee electors and for canvassing of official absentee ballots; providing for ineligibility to vote for conviction of infamous crime; prescribing penalties for failure to permit special overseers to act; and further providing for penalties relating to election officers who permit unregistered electors to vote and for unlawful voting.