SB 1397 Summary

• Allows early ballot voters whose ballots have defects to be notified by the county recorder at no cost and given ten days after the election to cure defects resulting from incomplete or incorrect information.

• Requires the county recorder to permit voters to cure early ballot defects, tabulate the corrected ballot, and notify voters whether their ballot was counted and the reason if rejected.

• Establishes notification restrictions designed to limit ballot status information to the voter only, protecting ballot privacy.

• Applies similar cure procedures to provisional ballot voters, allowing them to cure defects in provisional ballot materials within ten days following the election.

• Changes language from mandatory rejection of insufficient affidavits to a process providing voters opportunity to correct defects before ballot rejection.