Chapter 454
2008 -- S 2932
Enacted 07/08/08
A N A C T
RELATING
TO ELECTIONS - REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
Introduced
By: Senators DaPonte, and Moura
Date
Introduced: April 03, 2008
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
17-9.1-21 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-9.1 entitled
"Registration of Voters" is hereby
amended to read as follows:
17-9.1-21.
Registration lists furnished to political parties. -- The local boards
shall not
more than once each week and not less than
once a month, if requested to do so by the state
and/or city or town chairperson of any political
party, or any state or local office holder or
declared candidate for public office, furnish
without cost and without unreasonable delay to the
chairperson, or the chairperson's accredited
representative, and to any state or local office holder
or declared candidate for public office so
requesting, the names and addresses of all persons who
are newly registered to vote in the city or
town, the names and addresses of all electors who have
transferred to a new voting address, and the
names and addresses of all persons whose names
have been removed from the voting list or placed
in the inactive category. In the event that any
list so furnished is declared to be inaccurate
by the chairperson of the democratic state committee
or the chairperson of the republican state
central committee, the state board of elections shall, at
its discretion, if requested by either of the
chairpersons, appoint a disinterested person to examine
the records of the local board for the purpose
of determining the accuracy of the list. Nothing in
this section shall be construed to prevent any
member of the general public from obtaining the
same information under the access to Public
Records Acts, chapter 2 of title 38.
SECTION 2. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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