SB 1375
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
Senate: JUDE DPA 4-3-0-0 | 3rd Read 17-12-1-0
House: FMAE DP 4-3-0-0
SB 1375: voter registration rolls; internet access
Sponsor: Senator Finchem, LD 1
Caucus & COW
Overview
Expands access to voter registration rolls and precinct lists, adds reporting requirements for
election inspectors and allows for expanded postelection hand counts.
History
Upon request for an authorized use, an officer in charge of elections must prepare additional
copies of an official precinct list and provide them to the requestor on payment of the
prescribed fee. Authorized uses include for a political party activity, a political party
campaign or election, for revising election district boundaries but not for commercial
purposes. Individuals in possession of information derived from voter registration forms or
precinct registers are prohibited from distributing, posting or providing access to the
information through the internet except as authorized by instructions from the Elections
Procedures Manual (A.R.S. § 16-168).
County election officers are required to conduct a hand count of a sample of ballots to test the
accuracy of the vote tabulation equipment if there is participation from the county political
parties. Those counties that conduct the hand count are required by law to report the results
to the Secretary of State (A.R.S. § 16-602).
Provisions
1. Requires the County Recorder to provide access at no cost to voter registration rolls via
an internet portal that is accessible to the public and allows the information to be
downloaded. (Sec. 2)
2. Adds that information derived from voter registration rolls may be used for purposes
relating to a political or political party activity, political campaign or an election, for
revising election district boundaries and other legally authorized purposes but not for
commercial purposes. (Sec. 2)
3. Requires the officer in charge of elections to provide for electronic access to specified voter
registration information. (Sec. 2)
4. Directs upon a request for a noncommercial use that the officer in charge of elections
prepare additional copies of an official precinct list and furnish them to any person who
establishes an electronic profile with the information provider and attests the information
will not be used for a commercial purpose. (Sec. 2)
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5. Removes the prohibition on individuals with information derived from voter registration
forms or precinct registers from distributing, posting or providing access to the
information through the internet. (Sec. 2)
6. States the County Recorders and Secretary of State cannot prohibit any person or entity
from distributing precinct lists to any person or entity using the list in a lawful manner.
(Sec. 2)
7. Requires before the inspector leaves a voting location at the end of election day, to send
data from the voting location ballot report to the election department and officer in charge
of elections no later than the last post of election results for that night and make the data
available as public record. (Sec. 5)
8. Allows, at the discretion of the board of supervisors, the county officer in charge of
elections to perform an expanded postelection hand count of up to 100% of the ballots cast
against the tabulation report. (Sec. 6)
9. Makes technical and conforming changes. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9)