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IN HB1253

Bill

Status

Passed

3/15/2018

Primary Sponsor

Kathy Richardson

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Origin

House of Representatives

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

HEA 1253 Summary

  • Circuit court clerk must permanently retain all county election board meeting minutes, including written records of each member's aye and nay votes on all questions.

  • County voter registration offices must scan paper documents that create, amend, or cancel voter registration records and attach the scanned images to the voter's computerized file, including subsequently rejected applications.

  • NVRA official must submit all Indiana registered voter names to the United States Postal Service National Change of Address Service and request voter lists from Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio by December 31 annually.

  • County voter registration offices must execute a memorandum of understanding with Kansas Secretary of State to identify individuals registered to vote in multiple states using a point-based confidence factor system (requiring minimum 75 points based on name, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license, and address matching).

  • County voter registration office must retain paper registration records for an address until the voter's registration is cancelled, the next general election occurs, and 24 months have elapsed following that election.

Legislative Description

Voter list maintenance. Adds a requirement that the circuit court clerk permanently retain the minutes of all meetings of the county election board. Requires the county voter registration office to scan a paper document that creates, amends, or cancels an individual's voter registration record and attach the scanned image to the voter's file in the computerized list. Codifies current administrative procedures ("confidence factors") used by the Indiana election division to determine which potentially duplicate voter registration records to provide to county voter registration offices to assist the county in determining whether a voter of the county has registered more recently

Last Action

Public Law 116

3/15/2018

Committee Referrals

Elections2/1/2018
Elections and Apportionment1/11/2018

Full Bill Text

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