REFERENCE TITLE: recorders; voter registrations; public buildings

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature

First Regular Session

2021

SB 1358

Introduced by

Senator Ugenti-Rita

AN ACT

amending section 16-134, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to qualification and registration of electors.

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

Section 1.  Section 16-134, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-134.  Return of registrations made outside office of county recorder; incomplete or illegible forms

A.  A county recorder shall authorize persons to accept registration forms, shall designate places for receipt of registration forms and shall designate additional locations for distribution of voter registration forms. Public assistance agencies and disabilities agencies as defined in section 16‑140 shall return or mail completed voter registrations to the county recorder of the county in which the applicant resides within five days after receipt of those registrations.  A county recorder may not conduct a voter registration drive or other similar voter registration event at any location other than at a location, facility or property that is government owned.

B.  If the information on the registration form is incomplete or illegible and the county recorder is not able to process the registration form, the county recorder shall notify the applicant within ten business days of receipt of the registration form, shall specify the missing or illegible information and, if the missing or illegible information includes any of the information prescribed by section 16‑121.01, subsection A, shall state that the registration cannot be completed until the information is supplied.  If the missing or illegible information is supplied before 7:00 p.m. on election day, that person is deemed to have been registered on the date the registration was first received.

C.  In the case of registration by mail, a voter registration is valid for an election if it complies with either of the following:

1.  The form is postmarked twenty‑nine days or more before an election and is received by the county recorder by 7:00 p.m. on the day of that election.

2.  The registration is dated twenty‑nine days or more before an election and is received by the county recorder by first class mail within five days after the last day to register to vote in that election.

D.  The date of registration entered for registration forms that are received by the county recorder from persons, groups or agencies that are not authorized to accept registrations pursuant to subsection A of this section and that do not bear a legible postmark date or an otherwise reliable date shall be the date that those forms are received by the county recorder.END_STATUTE