Bill Text: FL H0287 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Overseas Voting
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Government Operations Subcommittee [H0287 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-H0287-Introduced.html
HB 287 |
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2 | An act relating to overseas voting; amending s. |
3 | 101.697, F.S.; requiring that the Department of State |
4 | adopt rules to authorize a supervisor of elections to |
5 | accept from an overseas voter a request for an |
6 | absentee ballot or a voted absentee ballot by secure |
7 | electronic mail; providing an effective date. |
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9 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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11 | Section 1. Section 101.697, Florida Statutes, is amended |
12 | to read: |
13 | 101.697 Electronic transmission of election materials.-The |
14 | Department of State |
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17 | shall adopt rules to authorize a supervisor of elections to |
18 | accept from an overseas voter a request for an absentee ballot |
19 | or a voted absentee ballot by secure facsimile machine |
20 | transmission, secure electronic mail, or other secure electronic |
21 | means. The rules must provide that in order to accept a voted |
22 | ballot, the verification of the voter must be established, the |
23 | security of the transmission must be established, and each |
24 | ballot received must be recorded. |
25 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |
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