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HB 576 Original 2020 Regular Session Willard
Abstract: Provides for changes to when a voter's registration may be cancelled.
Present law provides that the registration of a voter, who is on the inactive list, may not be cancelled
unless the voter has been on the inactive list for a period of two regularly scheduled federal general
elections.
Proposed law changes the period that a voter must be on the inactive list, prior to having his
registration cancelled, from two regularly scheduled federal general elections to four regularly
scheduled federal general elections.
Present law provides that a voter's registration shall not be cancelled between any primary election
and the subsequent general election, except in the case of a fraud or in the case of a person whose
registration is cancelled pursuant to the annual canvass conducted by the registrar.
Proposed law provides that notwithstanding present law, a voter on the inactive list may not have
his registration cancelled within 120 days before an election in the jurisdiction where the voter was
last registered.
(Amends R.S. 18:193(E) and (H) and 197)