HB 5635 Summary

• Allows absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters to electronically transmit and receive blank voter registration and absent voter ballot applications from local election clerks.

• Permits absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters to return completed absent voter ballots electronically to their local clerk, in addition to returning them by mail.

• Requires the Secretary of State to prescribe electronic ballot formats and transmission methods for absent voter ballots and establish procedures for processing electronically returned ballots.

• Requires local election clerks to transmit absent voter ballots to military and overseas voters within 45 days before an election, with extensions granted if ballots are transmitted late.

• Designates email addresses provided by absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters as confidential and exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.