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REFERENCE TITLE: election returns; canvass; review |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature First Regular Session 2023
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SB 1287 |
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Introduced by Senator Kaiser
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An Act
amending sections 16-642 and 16-644, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the official canvass.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-642, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-642. Canvass of election; postponements
A. The governing body holding an election shall meet and canvass the election not less than six days nor more than twenty days following the election.
B. The governing body of a special district as defined in title 48 shall present to the board of supervisors a certified copy of the official canvass of the election at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board of supervisors. For purposes of contesting a special district election as described in section 16-673, the canvass is not complete until the presentation to the board of supervisors is made.
C. If, at the time of the meeting of the governing body, the returns from any polling place in the election district where the polls were opened and an election held are found to be missing or in question, the canvass shall be postponed from day to day until the governing body has to its satisfaction examined all the returns are received and ascertained the facts which the returns DISCLOSE or until six postponements have been had.
Sec. 2. Section 16-644, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-644. Effect of want of form in precinct returns
No list, tally, certificates or endorsement returned from any precinct shall be set aside or rejected for want of form, or for not being strictly in accordance with the explicit provisions of this title, if they can be clearly understood, nor shall any declaration of result, commission or certificate be withheld or denied by reason of any defect or informality issued in making the returns of the election in any precinct, if the facts which the returns should disclose can cannot be definitely ascertained.