Bill No.: HB0007                  Drafter:  LGC

LSO No.:  10LSO-0167              Effective Date:  7/1/2010

Enrolled Act No.:  HEA0003

Chapter No.:       3

Prime Sponsor:     Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Catch Title:       Election code-revisions.

Subject:            Revisions to the election code.

Summary/Major Elements:

· Allows county clerks to conduct random audits of ballots by processing preaudited groups of test ballots on 5% of automated tabulating equipment.

· Requires a voter to make a written withdrawal of his voter registration from another county or state on the new voter registration application.

· Changes terminology from "nonpartisan" to "unaffiliated".

· Provides that an absentee ballot that has been accepted by a county clerk cannot be returned to a voter.

· Allows county clerks to notify political party chairmen of the testing of electronic voting systems with other than written notification.

· Requires county canvassing boards to review and certify successful write-in candidates after counting the votes and verifying the candidate's qualification.

· Establishes that the proposition to authorize a hospital district mill levy shall be submitted to the voters at the second general election following the election at which the proposition was initially approved.

· Repeals requirement that voter state the date they became a resident of the county when filing a voter registration.