Bill Text: FL S0528 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Voter Eligibility Challenge [GPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Ethics and Elections [S0528 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0528-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 528 
 
By Senator Justice 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to challenging a person desiring to 
3         vote; amending s. 101.111, F.S.; prohibiting a voter 
4         from being challenged on the basis of certain 
5         documents; prohibiting certain persons from submitting 
6         a formal challenge to an individual’s eligibility to 
7         register to vote or to vote in any election under 
8         certain circumstances; providing an effective date. 
9 
10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
11 
12         Section 1. Present subsection (2) of section 101.111, 
13  Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), and new 
14  subsections (2) and (3) are added to that section, to read: 
15         101.111 Person desiring to vote may be challenged; 
16  challenger to execute oath; oath of person challenged; 
17  determination of challenge.— 
18         (2) A voter may not be challenged on the basis of the 
19  following documents: 
20         (a) A “voter caging document,” which is defined as a 
21  nonforwardable document that is sent by a person other than a 
22  state or local election official and that is returned to the 
23  sender or a third party as undelivered or undeliverable despite 
24  an attempt to deliver such document to the address of a 
25  registered voter or an applicant for registration; 
26         (b) A list of individuals compiled from voter caging 
27  documents; or 
28         (c) A list produced by matching the information of 
29  registered voters or applicants for voter registration to a list 
30  of individuals who are ineligible to vote by virtue of death, 
31  conviction, change of address, or otherwise, unless one of the 
32  pieces of information matched includes a signature, photograph, 
33  or unique identifying number ensuring that the information from 
34  each source refers to the same individual. 
35         (3) A person who is not a state or local election official 
36  may not submit a formal challenge to an individual’s eligibility 
37  to register to vote or to vote in any election if the basis for 
38  such challenge is evidence consisting of an error or omission on 
39  any record or paper relating to any application, registration, 
40  or other act requisite to voting, and if such error or omission 
41  is not material to the individual’s eligibility to vote as 
42  provided by law. 
43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.