REFERENCE TITLE: satellite voting and registration locations

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fiftieth Legislature Second Regular Session 2012

HB 2229

Introduced by Representative Heinz

 

AN ACT

 

Amending title 16, chapter 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding article 1.2; relating to satellite voting and registration locations.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 16, chapter 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding article 1.2, to read:

ARTICLE 1.2.  SATELLITE VOTING AND REGISTRATION LOCATIONS

START_STATUTE16-115.  Satellite voting and registration locations; registration; early voting; provisional ballot

Beginning with the primary election in 2012 and notwithstanding any other law, the county recorder shall establish one or more satellite voting and registration locations at the office of the county recorder or at other locations in the county deemed necessary or appropriate by the recorder.  A satellite voting and registration location shall allow a resident of the county who properly registered to vote twenty‑nine days or more before the date of the election to vote during the period provided for early voting or to vote on election day with the proper ballot for that resident's precinct. A satellite voting and registration location also shall provide any resident of the county with the ability to register and vote during the period provided for early voting with the proper ballot for the resident's precinct, as follows:

1.  A person who is otherwise eligible to register to vote may register during the early voting period for that election by appearing at the satellite voting and registration location in the county in which that person maintains the person's residence, completing a registration form as provided in section 16-152 and providing satisfactory evidence of citizenship pursuant to section 16-166, subsection F.

2.  A person who registers to vote pursuant to this section during the early voting period may vote in that election only at the satellite voting and registration location and with a provisional ballot as prescribed in section 16-584 and may vote as otherwise provided by law for any election held at least twenty-nine days after the date of the person's registration.