HB 6429 Summary

• Defines "overvote" as voting for more candidates than legally allowed for an office or voting for the same person more than once for a single office.

• Requires voting tabulators to warn electors of overvotes and provide an immediate opportunity to revote before recording the ballot.

• Establishes a procedure for attributing overvotes for cross-endorsed candidates to endorsing parties based on the percentage of votes each party received for that candidate.

• Requires ballots to indicate when a candidate is cross-endorsed and that an elector may vote only once for such a candidate.

• Effective date: July 1, 2013.