SB 93 Summary

• Removes the requirement that voters register "before the election," allowing voter registration up to election day, with late registrants voting questioned ballots.

• Establishes online voter registration through the state's Internet website as an approved registration method, alongside existing in-person, mail, facsimile, and electronic transmission options.

• Directs the state to match online registration information with existing motor vehicle and driver's license records, as well as permanent fund dividend records maintained by the Departments of Administration and Revenue.

• Designates "early voting stations" where voters may cast absentee ballots beginning 15 days before an election through election day, replacing references to "absentee voting stations" throughout election law.

• Allows voters to opt into receiving absentee ballots by mail for future regularly scheduled state elections without requiring reapplication unless they have not voted for four years or their ballot was returned as undeliverable.

• Takes effect January 1, 2016.