Voter registration deadline.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE

FILE

NO.
0026

ENROLLED ACT NO. 56, SENATE

SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2009 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
elections;
amending
the voter registration deadline
; clarifying when
registration must occur in order to vote in an election
;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 22
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102(a)(intro)
and 22
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3
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117(a)

are
amended to read:

22
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102.

Qualifications; temporary registration.

(a)

A person may register to vote not less than
thirty (30
) days
, and effective January 1, 2011 fourteen (14) days
before an election, at any election specified in W.S. 22
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2
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101(a)(i) through (viii)

or as provided by W.S. 22
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3
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117, who satisfies the following qualifications:

22
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3
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117.

Absentee registration generally; use of federal postcard.

(a)

Notwithstanding any other section or provision in this chapter, any citizen of the United States who is a resident of Wyoming may apply for registration by providing the information required by W.S. 22
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3
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103(a) and acceptable identification to and completing and subscribing, the form of voter registration oath prescribed by W.S. 22
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103(b) before any person authorized by law to administer oaths. Each county clerk shall furnish the voter registration oath forms.

The applicant shall mail or return the completed voter registration oath form to the county clerk in the county in which the applicant resides.

In order to vote in the next election
,

t
he application must be received in the county clerk's office before the close of registration for that election
,
or
:

(i)

B
e
r
eceived
by
mail and processed by the county clerk during the closed period described in W.S. 22
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3
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102(a) if it is
accompanied by an absentee ballot request for elections where a voter may register at the polls
;
.

(ii)

Be m
ade at the county clerk's office during the closed period described in W.S. 22
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3
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102(a) if the voter simultaneously votes at the
county clerk's office
; or

(i
ii
)

Be m
ade
and processed at
the absentee polling place during the closed period described in W.S. 22
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3
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102(a) if the voter simultaneously votes at the absentee polling place established for that purpose pursuant to W.S. 22
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125
.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2009.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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