Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1246 
 
By Senator Justice 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to elections; amending s. 101.62, 
3         F.S.; authorizing an elector to attain status as a 
4         permanent absentee voter; specifying circumstances 
5         under which a request for an absentee ballot may be 
6         considered canceled; providing an effective date. 
7 
8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
9 
10         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 
11  101.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
12         101.62 Request for absentee ballots.— 
13         (1)(a) The supervisor may accept a request for an absentee 
14  ballot from an elector in person or in writing. Except as 
15  provided in s. 101.694, one request shall be deemed sufficient 
16  to receive an absentee ballot for all future elections through 
17  the next two regularly scheduled general elections, unless the 
18  elector or the elector’s designee indicates at the time the 
19  request is made that the elections for which the elector desires 
20  to receive the an absentee ballot only for specific elections. A 
21  Such request for an absentee ballot may be considered canceled 
22  when any first-class mail sent by the supervisor to the elector 
23  is returned as undeliverable or when the elector notifies the 
24  supervisor in person or in writing that he or she no longer 
25  wishes to receive an absentee ballot. 
26         Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.