Section 1 expands the authorization for cities and towns to conduct mail balloting by allowing for any town, regardless of size, or by any city with fewer than 1,000 registered voters. (In current law, a city or town having fewer than 400 registered voters may conduct mail balloting.) The town or city must not be located within a metropolitan county. This section also allows the governing body of a town or city to designate an individual precinct for mail balloting if the precinct has fewer than 100 registered voters. (In current law, the limit is 50 registered voters.)
Section 2 appropriates money from the general fund in fiscal year 2014 to the Secretary of State to make necessary changes to the statewide voter registration system to process and track mail ballots.
Background: When an election is conducted by mail balloting, voters receive ballots in the mail and may return them by mail. A voter may also vote in person on Election Day at the office of the auditor or clerk, or other designated location. Voting by mail balloting is not the same as casting an absentee ballot.
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