2015 -- S 0639

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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A N   A C T

RELATING ELECTIONS - MAIL BALLOT

     

     Introduced By: Senators McCaffrey, and Lombardi

     Date Introduced: March 05, 2015

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

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     SECTION 1. Section 17-20-29 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-20 entitled "Mail

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Ballots" is hereby amended to read as follows:

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     17-20-29. Mail applicant not permitted to vote at polls. -- Mail applicant permitted

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to vote a provisional ballot. -- (a) No person, or one claiming to be that person, whose name has

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been marked upon any voting list, provided for official use at any election, with the mark as

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provided by § 17-20-10, shall be permitted to vote in person at the election; provided, that the

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person may re-establish his or her right to vote in person by presenting himself or herself at that

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person's local board on or before election day and surrendering his or her mail ballot. Upon that

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surrender the person's name shall be restored to the voting list. Any person whose name has been

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marked on the voting list as applying for a mail ballot may also shall be permitted to vote in

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person if that person executes and delivers to the local board an affidavit stating that the person

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did not receive the mail ballot, or that the mail ballot was lost or destroyed cast a provisional

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ballot in accordance with § 17-19-24.1.

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      (b) Each local board shall, immediately after the close of the polls, certify and deliver to

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the state board the names and addresses of all persons restored to the voting list, together with the

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affidavits and surrendered ballots received pursuant to this section.

 

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     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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RELATING ELECTIONS - MAIL BALLOT

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     This act would allow a voter who has applied for a mail ballot to cast a provisional ballot.

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     This act would take effect upon passage.

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