LIMITS VOTE BY MAIL and other prohibitions to voting

585-02681-21                                            202190c2

    1                        A bill to be entitled                     

    2         An act relating to election administration; amending

    3         s. 101.62, F.S.; limiting the duration of requests for

    4         vote-by-mail ballots to all elections through the end

    5         of the calendar year of the next regularly scheduled

    6         general election; requiring vote-by-mail ballot

    7         requests to include additional identifying information

    8         regarding the requesting elector; prohibiting the

    9         supervisor from mailing, delivering, or otherwise

   10         providing vote-by-mail ballots to an elector, or a

   11         designee thereof, unless a request has been made for

   12         such ballot; requiring supervisors of elections to

   13         record whether a voter’s certificate on a vote-by-mail

   14         ballot has a mismatched signature; restricting who an

   15         elector may designate to pick up a vote-by-mail ballot

   16         to conform to changes made by the act; amending s.

   17         101.64, F.S.; prohibiting the display of an absent

   18         elector’s party affiliation or other partisan

   19         information on the outside of vote-by-mail ballots and

   20         return and secrecy envelopes; amending s. 101.65,

   21         F.S.; revising instructions to absent electors to

   22         conform to changes made by the act; amending s.

   23         101.68, F.S.; authorizing the canvassing of vote-by

   24         mail ballots upon the completion of the public

   25         preelection testing of automatic tabulating equipment;

   26         requiring the canvassing board to use the most recent

   27         signature of an elector when verifying a signature on

   28         a vote-by-mail ballot or a cure affidavit; amending s.

   29         101.69, F.S.; prohibiting the use of drop boxes for

   30         the return of vote-by-mail ballots; amending s.

   31         104.0616, F.S.; prohibiting any person from

   32         distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting,

   33         delivering, or otherwise physically possessing a vote

   34         by-mail ballot of another person, not including a

   35         ballot belonging to an immediate family member;

   36         providing an exception; providing a penalty; providing

   37         for construction and applicability; providing an

   38         effective date.