precinct committeemen; proxy voting

Plain English Breakdown

The official text confirms the rule applies to 'county committee meetings' but does not explicitly list other meeting types excluded beyond what is implied by the specific amendment.

HB2424: Proxy Voting Rules for Precinct Committeemen

This bill allows precinct committeemen in small groups to ask a voter from a nearby area to vote for them at county committee meetings.

What This Bill Does

• Allows political parties to use proxy voting if their bylaws permit it.
• Permits a precinct committeeman with two or fewer colleagues to appoint someone else to vote in their place.
• Requires the person appointed to be a qualified voter from an adjoining (next-door) precinct.
• Limits this new rule only to county committee meetings, not state committee meetings.
• Keeps existing rules that require proxies to last only for one meeting and need notarization or witnesses.

Who It Names or Affects

• Precinct committeemen in Arizona precincts with two or fewer members
• Qualified electors (registered voters) living in adjoining precincts who may be asked to vote by proxy
• Political parties that hold county committee meetings

Terms To Know

Precinct Committeeman

A member of a political party elected or appointed to represent voters in a specific small area called a precinct.

Proxy Voting

When one person gives another person the right to vote on their behalf at a meeting.

Qualified Elector

A registered voter who meets all legal requirements to cast a ballot in Arizona elections.

Limits and Unknowns

• This rule only applies if the political party chooses to allow proxy voting through its own bylaws.
• The bill does not change rules for state committee meetings, which still require proxies from within the same county or precinct as before.

Official Summary Text

HB2424 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

HB
2424
: precinct committeemen; proxy voting

Sponsor:
Representative Griffin, LD 19

Committee
on Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Overview

Provides for proxy
voting in a county committee meeting by a qualified elector in precincts with
two or fewer precinct committeemen.

History

Any member of a recognized political party who is a
registered voter in the precinct is eligible to seek the office of precinct
committeeman (PC) of that party in that precinct. The minimum duties of a PC
are to assist their political party in voter registration and to assist the
voters of that political party to vote on election days (
A.R.S. � 16-822
).

Currently,
statute allows a political party to choose to allow the use of proxies at its
meetings with the following regulations:

1)

no
proxy shall be given by a member of the state committee for use at a meeting of
the committee except to a qualified elector of the county where the member
resides; and

2)

no
proxy shall be given by a member of the county committee for the use at a
meeting of the committee except to a qualified elector of the precinct where
the member resides.

Additionally, the duration of any proxy extends only for the
length of the meeting, and every proxy must be attested by a notary public or two
witnesses (
A.R.S. � 16-828
).

Provisions

1.

Allows a PC,
in a precinct with two or fewer PCs, to appoint a qualified elector from a
geographically adjoining precinct to vote by proxy on behalf of the PC in a
county committee meeting. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB2424 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
precinct committeemen; proxy voting

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2424

Introduced by

Representatives
Griffin: Diaz, Taylor;� Senator Gowan

AN
ACT

amending section 16-828, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to political parties.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-828, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

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16-828.

Proxies

A. A political party may choose, through its bylaws,
to allow the use of proxies at its meetings, in which event the following shall
be minimum regulations:

1. No proxy shall be given by a member of the state
committee for use at a meeting of the committee except to a qualified elector
of the county where the member resides.

2. No proxy shall be given by a member of the county
committee for use at a meeting of the committee except to a qualified elector
of the precinct where the member resides.

3. In a precinct with two or fewer
precinct committeemen, a precinct committeeman may appoint a qualified elector
from a geographically adjoining precinct to vote by proxy on behalf of the
precinct committeeman in a county committee meeting.

B. The duration of any proxy so given shall extend
only for the length of the meeting for which it is given.

C. Every proxy shall be attested by a notary public
or two witnesses.
END_STATUTE