ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2814: early ballot return; voter intimidation

Sponsor: Representative Quiñonez, LD 11

Committee on Municipal Oversight & Elections

Overview

Specifies any person engaging in an act that constitutes harassment while knowingly interfering with a voter or engaging in conduct directed at a voter is a class 2 misdemeanor. 

History

A person commits harassment if they knowingly and repeatedly commit an act or acts that harass another person or the person knowingly commits one of the following in a manner that harasses:

1)   contacts or communicates with another person by verbal, electronic, mechanical, telegraphic, telephonic or written means;

2)   continues to follow another person in or about a public place after being asked by that person to stop;

3)   surveils or causes a person to surveil another person;

4)   makes a false report to law enforcement, credit or social service agency against another person; and

5)   interferes with the delivery of any public or regulated utility to another person (A.R.S. § 13-2921).

Provisions

1.   ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteClassifies knowingly interfering with a voter or engaging in conduct directed at one or more persons delivering or attempting to deliver a voted ballot to a lawful recipient or receptacle while engaging in an act constituting harassment, is a class 2 misdemeanor. (Sec. 1)

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