Bill > A317

Introduced Session

This bill establishes the "Protecting Mail-in Voters Act," which modifies "The Vote By Mail Law" to require all voters who use a mail-in ballot to vote to enclose a copy of a valid form of State-accepted photo identification matching the voter's name and current address within the mail-in ballot's outer envelope. The bill requires the county board of elections to compare the signature and the information contained on the copy of the voter's photo identification with the signature and information contained in the requests for mail-in ballots and the signature and information contained in the Statewide voter registration system. The bill requires the Secretary of State to conduct an education campaign to inform voters of these new requirements and to provide voters with instructions for how to properly submit a mail-in ballot. The bill provides that any voter who votes using a mail-in ballot which is rejected for failure to include a copy of the voter's photo identification be given the opportunity to "cure" the deficiency to allow their vote to be counted by completing the cure form sent to the voter by the county board of elections and by including the documents that were not present in the voter's mail-in ballot.

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Paul Kanitra (R)*,  Greg McGuckin (R), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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