SB18-233 Summary

• Modifies voter registration and election procedures to exclude undeliverable email messages from statewide registration records and expand residence options for homeless voters to include specific physical locations.

• Changes voting eligibility for incarcerated individuals by allowing pre-trial detainees and those not serving felony sentences to register and vote by mail, using confinement location as ballot address.

• Reduces party affiliation and residency requirements for caucuses, assemblies, and conventions from 30/60 days to 22 days, and streamlines party candidate petition signature requirements.

• Extends election administration deadlines by 3-9 days for ballot issue comments, vote certification, recount procedures, and provisional ballot counting; changes affiliation deadlines from 29 days to 22 days before primary elections.

• Replaces precinct-based election judge appointments and terminology with "voter service and polling center" locations, and repeals separate ballot requirements for unaffiliated voters in primary elections.