Bill > HB2710

This bill makes several key changes to election procedures in Arizona: 1. It requires county recorders to provide regularly updated voter registration lists to political party chairpersons, including information such as voters' names, party affiliation, registration dates, addresses, phone numbers, and voting history. It also establishes a statewide voter registration database to be maintained by the Secretary of State. 2. It modifies the "active early voting list" process, including requirements for voters to opt-in, procedures for removing inactive voters, and deadlines for submitting completed early ballot request forms. 3. It requires county recorders to make reasonable efforts to contact voters with missing or inconsistent signatures on early ballot envelopes, and allows voters to correct those issues up to several days after an election. 4. It outlines procedures for appointing and overseeing partisan challengers and observers at polling places, voting centers, and ballot processing locations. 5. It expands mandatory hand-count audits of election results, including early ballots, and establishes a Vote Count Verification Committee to set "designated margins" for triggering the expanded audits. 6. It requires live video monitoring and recording of ballot custody and processing at counting centers and hand count locations, with the recordings posted publicly. 7. It allows party representatives to observe the processing of returned early ballot envelopes at third-party vendor facilities. Overall, the bill aims to increase transparency and oversight of various election procedures and voter registration processes in Arizona.

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https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/77772