Election ballots.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0263
Introduced
1.3

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0068

Election ballots.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Zwonitzer, Byrd and Lindholm and Senator(s) Case

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for the counting of absentee ballots received after the date of the election as specified; requiring boards of county commissioners to adopt procedures relating to such ballots; modifying the time county canvassing boards shall meet; 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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9
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118
,
22
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9
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119
and 22
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16
‑
103(c
)(
i)
are amended to read:

22
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9
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118
.

Delivery of absentee ballots and duplicate list to precincts.

The clerk shall oversee the delivery of the sealed envelope containing absentee ballots and the duplicate list of absent electors to each precinct polling place before the polls are opened. Absentee ballots returned to the county clerk
not later than 7:00 p.m. on
election day

shall be counted

in accordance with W.S. 22
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9
‑
119
.

22
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9
‑
119
.

A
bsentee ballots
received after the polls close
; late absentee ballots
.

(a)

An absentee ballot
postmarked on or before the election day and

received by the clerk after the polls close
but prior to the convening of the meeting of the county canvassing board

shall
not
be voted.

The board of county commissioners shall adopt procedures for the
handling,
delivery and examination of absentee ballots received
in accordance with this
subsection
.

(b)

An absentee ballot received by the clerk after the meeting of the county canvassing board shall not be voted.

The clerk shall write on the inner envelope of such late absentee ballot "Rejected
‑
received after the
polls closed

meeting of the county canvassing board
". These late
ballots shall be kept by the clerk for at least two (2) years after the election or longer if required by federal law and then destroyed.

22
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16
‑
103
.

County canvass procedures.

(c)

The county canvassing board shall:

(i)

Meet
as soon as all returns have been received and abstracted, but if any provisional ballots have been cast in the county, not before the time has passed for provisional voters to document their eligibility to register or to vote. The board shall meet
at a
time and
place designated by the county clerk
, but no later than

on
the first Friday following the election;

Section

2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
201
7
.

(END)

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