Assigned to JUDE AS PASSED BY COW
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
AMENDED
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1375
voter registration rolls; internet access
Purpose
Requires the county recorder SOS and other officers in charge of elections to provide
electronic access to voter registration information and additional copies of an official precinct list
to a person who requests the information for noncommercial purposes as outlined. Requires the
data from a voting location ballot report to be made available as a public record by the last posting
of election results for that election night and allows an expanded postelection early ballot hand
count to be performed at the discretion of the county board of supervisors (BOS).
Background
Precinct registers and other lists and information derived from voter registration forms may
only be used for: 1) purposes relating to a political activity, political campaign or election;
2) revising election district boundaries; or 3) any other purpose authorized by law. A county
recorder, the Secretary of State (SOS) or an officer in charge of elections, on a request for an
authorized use, must prepare additional copies of the list and furnish them to any requesting person
on payment of a statutory fee that is based on the number of voter registration forms provided.
Any person in possession of a precinct register or list may not allow the register or list to be used,
bought, sold or transferred for any non-authorized purpose (A.R.S. § 16-168).
The officer in charge of elections must ensure that electronic or digital ballot images are
protected from physical or electronic access, including unauthorized copying or transferring, and
that all security measures are at least as protective as those for paper ballots (A.R.S. § 16-625).
After the electronic tabulation of early ballots, the chairpersons of the political parties
entitled to representation in Arizona, or the chairpersons' designees must randomly select at least
one batch of tabulated early ballots for use in the post-election hand count audit from each machine
used in the tabulation of early ballots. The chairperson or their designee must randomly select from
those ballots a number equal to 1 percent of the total number of early ballots cast or 5,000 early
ballots, whichever is less. From the randomly selected early ballots the county officer in charge of
elections must conduct a manual audit of the same races that are hand counted for the non-early
ballot votes cast for the countywide primary, special, general and presidential preference elections
(A.R.S. § 16-602).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation. FACT SHEET – Amended
S.B. 1375
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Provisions
1. Requires the county recorder to provide public access to the voter registration rolls by way of
an internet portal that allows the information to be downloaded.
2. Prohibits the county recorder from charging a fee to access the information from the voter
registration rolls.
3. Specifies that information from the voter registration rolls may not be used for commercial
purposes and may only be used for purposes related to:
a) a political or political activity, political campaign or election;
b) revising election district boundaries; or
c) any other purpose authorized by law.
4. Requires the county recorder, SOS and other officers in charge of elections to provide
electronic access to voter registration information and additional copies of an official precinct
list to any person who:
a) requests the records for a noncommercial use;
b) establishes an electronic profile with the information provider;
c) attests that the information will not be used for a commercial purpose; and
d) on payment of a prescribed fee based on the number of voter registration records provided.
5. Removes the prohibition on a person in possession of information derived from voter
registration forms or precinct registers from distributing, posting or otherwise providing access
to any portion of that information through the internet.
6. Requires the inspector, before leaving a voting location at the end of an election day, to send
the data from the voting location ballot report to the election department.
7. Requires the officer in charge of elections to make the data from the voting location ballot
report available as a public record by the time of the last posting of election results that election
night.
8. Allows the county officer in charge of elections, at the discretion of the county BOS, to perform
an expanded postelection early ballot hand count of up to 100 percent of the early ballots cast
against the tabulation report.
9. Makes technical and conforming changes.
10. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by Committee
1. Requires a voting location ballot report to be made available as a public record by the time of
the last posting of election results that election night.
2. Allows an expanded postelection early ballot hand count to be conducted at the discretion of
the county BOS. FACT SHEET – Amended
S.B. 1375
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3. Restores the:
a) process by which a county or state party chairperson requests precinct lists and by which
the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections provides the precinct lists;
b) requirement that the SOS establish a single format and template in which all county
recorders provide the precinct lists to the SOS;
c) ability of the county recorder, SOS and other officers in charge of elections to charge a fee
for providing additional official precinct lists as prescribed; and
d) requirement that voter registration records be available for public inspection at the office
of the county recorder and the specification that certain personal information derived from
voter registration forms be excluded from public inspection.
4. Reinstates the prohibition against releasing a voter's email address for any purpose and on a
person in possession of information from voter registration forms or precinct registers from
distributing or providing access to the information through the internet.
5. Makes technical and conforming changes.
Amendments Adopted by Committee of the Whole
• Removes the prohibition on a person who possesses information derived from voter
registration forms or precinct registers from making any portion of the information available
through the internet.
Senate Action
JUDE 2/19/25 DPA 4-3-0
Prepared by Senate Research
March 3, 2025
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