CS/HB 1339 Summary

• Defines "security-enhanced envelope" as a device with a tinted pattern on the inside used to conceal voter choices in place of traditional secrecy envelopes.

• Allows counties to use either traditional secrecy envelopes with return mailing envelopes OR security-enhanced envelopes for mail ballots and absentee ballots.

• Requires supervisors of elections to mail ballots 20 to 10 days before elections and specifies that marked ballots must be returned in the appropriate envelope type by 7 p.m. on election day.

• Updates canvassing procedures so that ballots returned in security-enhanced envelopes are separated from their signed envelopes to maintain voter secrecy, similar to existing procedures for secrecy envelopes.

• Effective date: July 1, 2012.