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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2344 By: Turner
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to elections; establishing pro cedures
for voters with a disability to request ballot;
providing for ballot and balloting materials to be
sent via electronic transmission ; providing for
transmission and return of ballot by certain time;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 14 -201 of Title 26, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Secretary of the State Election Board shall establish
procedures with the same security measures as used in the submission
of ballots from military and overseas voters to enable a voter with
a disability to independently and privately mark a mail ballot or
use an electronic voting device that produces a paper re cord using
nonvisual access, low vision access or other assistive technology i n
order for the voter to vote in a mail ballot election pursuant to
Section 14-108 of Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The procedures Req. No. 6752 Page 2
shall include an accessible method, to be determined by the
Secretary, by which a voter with a disability may request s uch a
ballot.
B. Upon receipt of the ballot application by a voter with a
disability, the secretary of the county election board shall
transmit the ballot and balloting material s to the voter by
electronic transmission .
C. If a ballot application from a voter with a disability
arrives after the jurisdiction begins transmitting ballots and
balloting materials to voters, the secretary of the county electio n
board shall transmit the ballot and balloting materials to the voter
within seventy-two (72) hours after the receipt of the ap plication.
D. A voter with a disability who receive s a ballot pursuant to
this section shall:
1. Return the ballot via electro nic transmission to the c ounty
election board; or
2. Print the ballot and return it to the county elec tion board
via United States Postal Service or hand -delivery.
Such ballot shall be received by the county election board before
the close of polls on th e day of the election.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 3.
59-1-6752 LRB 01/17/23