Bill Text: FL H0287 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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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

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HB 287

1	A bill to be entitled
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 shall determine whether secure electronic
15	means can be established for receiving ballots from overseas
16	voters. If such security can be established, the department
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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