AZ HB2160

Establishes the election reform study committee consisting of 3 House members, 3 Senate members, 1 secretary of state appointee with election experience, 1 county recorder from a county with over 2 million population, and 1 elections director from a county with 500,000-2 million population, with cochairpersons from different political parties.

Committee shall research provisional and conditional provisional ballots cast in 2008, 2010, and 2012 elections; voter wait times for early voting and election day; ballot processing and reporting times; permanent early voter list enrollment; online voter registration through servicearizona.com; precinct and polling place determination; voter education methods; and voting center usage.

Committee shall recommend draft legislation to address identified problems with goals including providing conditional provisional ballot lists to political parties before the identification deadline, ensuring sufficient election day staff, training election workers, allocating polling places to prevent long lines, reducing provisional ballot necessity, and enabling counties to complete ballot counting within ten days.

Committee may request information and data from state agencies and political subdivisions, hold hearings and fact-finding tours, and take testimony from elections administrators, voters, and community groups involved in voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.

Committee must submit a report with findings and proposed legislation to the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate by March 1, 2013, and the committee is repealed effective September 30, 2013.