Arizona 2022 2022 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2780 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 03/01/2022

                      	HB 2780 
Initials SJ/ES 	Page 1 	House Engrossed 
 
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Fifty-fifth Legislature 
Second Regular Session 
House: GE DP 7-6-0-0 
 
HB 2780: voter lists; images; voting records 
Sponsor: Representative Kavanagh, LD 23 
House Engrossed 
Overview 
Outlines requirements for the electronic posting of election records. 
History 
The county recorder is responsible for maintaining county records, maps and papers for access 
to the public. The county recorder is also responsible for canvassing an election between six and 
twenty days after the election was held. The canvass of an election is complete when the county 
recorder relays the results of the election to the county board of supervisors (A.R.S. § 11-461, 16-
642). 
Statute states that the officer in charge of elections must ensure that electronic data and ballot 
images are protected from electronic or physical access (A.R.S. § 16-625). 
Provisions 
1. Requires the county recorder to publish, 10 days before the primary and general election, a 
list of all voters who are eligible to vote in the election, including a list of inactive voters. (Sec. 
1) 
2. Establishes that the county recorder must post the voter list on their website and redact the 
voter's date of birth, driver license number, nonoperating identification license number and 
social security number before publishing or posting the voter list. (Sec. 1) 
3. States that after the primary or general election and five days before the county canvass the 
county recorder or other officer in charge of elections must publish and post in a digital format 
to the county's website: 
a) A list of voters and their method of voting;  
b) All ballot images; and  
c) A sortable format of the cast vote record. (Sec. 1) 
4. Directs the county recorder or other officer in charge of election to provide for an identifying 
indicator to be linked to ballots or ballot images, or both, that when combined with access to 
the cast vote record allows a person a reasonable basis to independently confirm tabulation 
results by batch of ballots. (Sec. 1) 
5. Instructs the officer in charge of elections to sort and store ballots in a manner that allows for 
convenient retrieval. (Sec. 1) 
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes)     ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes)      ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note