Bill > HF1487

This bill makes a variety of technical and policy changes to elections administration, voting, voter registration, polling places, ballots, recounts, contests, and candidates. Key provisions include: - Allowing permanent absentee voting for address confidentiality program participants, with the Secretary of State preparing and sending their ballots. - Modifying voter registration application requirements and procedures, including clarifying that a voter must "maintain residence" rather than "reside" in certain provisions. - Changing procedures for updating voter addresses and tracking undeliverable mailings. - Expanding the availability of electronic rosters and setting requirements for their functionality. - Modifying procedures for absentee and mail-in voting, including the timeline for opening and processing ballots. - Establishing a recount requirement for constitutional amendments with a narrow margin. - Updating various candidate filing, ballot ordering, and election contest procedures. - Making other miscellaneous changes to election administration, such as allowing shorter voting hours in some small towns and unorganized territories.