SB 1095
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
First Regular Session
House: ELEC DP 5-3-0-0 | 3
rd
Read: 16-14-0-0
SB1095: early ballot envelope; notice
Sponsor: Senator Carroll, LD 28
Committee on Municipal Oversight & Elections
Overview
Requires the return envelope containing an early ballot to include a specified statement regarding
the potential for delayed election results.
History
The County Recorder or other officer in charge of elections may begin distributing the early ballots
27 days before the election. The County Recorder is charged with processing early ballot requests
in order to provide early ballots and printed instructions to early voters directing the voters to sign
the affidavit, mark the ballot and return both in the enclosed envelope (A.R.S. §§ 16-542, 16-544).
In order for an early ballot to be valid and counted, the ballot and affidavit must be delivered to
the office of the County Recorder or other officer in charge of elections or may be deposited at
any polling place in the county no later than 7:00 p.m. on election day. The ballot will not be
counted without the voter's signature on the envelope (A.R.S. § 16-547).
Provisions
1. Adds that the envelope accompanying the early ballot must state the following: Failure to mail
an early ballot or deposit an early ballot in a ballot drop box by the Friday before the election
will result in delayed election results. (Sec. 1)
2. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note