HB638 Summary

• Requires photo identification to be submitted with the absentee ballot itself rather than with the absentee ballot application.

• Prohibits the absentee election manager and circuit clerk from extending their hours of operation outside normal business hours during an election year.

• Requires absentee election managers to report to the Secretary of State and Attorney General listing voters who requested ballots mailed to addresses with multiple requests or who requested ballots in counties where they are not registered.

• Mandates daily posting of absentee ballot applicant lists in county courthouses and assigns unique tracking numbers to each absentee ballot.

• Allows early counting of absentee ballots when more than 10,000 ballots are received and increases poll watchers to one per 10,000 absentee ballots; designates ballots received after election day up to six calendar days later as provisional ballots.