HB 2343 Summary

• Allows county boards of supervisors to authorize voting centers where any county voter can cast a ballot after presenting identification, in place of or in addition to traditional polling places.

• Permits boards to establish early voting drop-off centers where voters may deliver voted early ballots to a lawful custodian.

• Creates new section 16-414 establishing requirements for voting center election board appointments, including qualifications for inspectors, marshals, judges, and clerks, with provisions allowing minors aged 16+ to serve as clerks under supervision.

• Requires board of supervisors authorization by specific resolution for early voting locations and grants county recorders authority to modify approved locations and operate early voting sites during the three-day period before election day if precinct registers can be timely updated.

• Establishes one or more ballot replacement locations in each jurisdiction where electors can obtain replacement ballots until 7:00 p.m. on election day upon signing a sworn statement that their original ballot was lost, spoiled, destroyed, or not cast.