[NFB-Idaho] Fwd: IMPORTANT Bill: H 223 Anti Ballot-Collection is on the agenda in the morning please register to testify.

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Bill:  H 223 Anti Ballot-Collection  is on the agenda in the morning please
register to testify..

*Talking points for H223:*

·         This bill would inhibit legal and legitimate assistance to voters
casting their absentee ballots. For example, it would charge someone with a
felony for assisting an elderly, disabled neighbor by delivering their
ballot to a ballot box.

·         How will this be enforced?


SENATE STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 8:00 A.M.
Room WW55
Wednesday, April 07, 2021


*Bill:*  H 223
<https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2021/legislation/H0223.pdf>
Anti
Ballot-Collection

*Description**:* This bill makes it a felony to collect and deliver more
than 6 absentee ballots, and only from family, now defined within 2nd
degree of consanguinity.

*Bill status*:  This bill was passed by the House and is now in the Senate
State Affairs committee.

*League position*: *Oppose *– League supports “a vote by mail election
system in Idaho that is secure, accurate, recountable, and accessible with
particular focus on measures that address concerns about accessibility and
security of voting by mail.” (adopted in May 2009) The League is certainly
against ballot collecting for fraudulent purposes. What the League does not
like about the bill is the possibility of inhibiting legal and legitimate
assistance to voters casting their absentee ballots. Voter assistance is
allowed and is not evidence of fraud. Ballot tampering is illegal.



*Take Action - Write **to Senate State Affairs *

*Senate State Affairs Committee members.*

*Chair: Patty Ann Lodge:* PALodge at senate.idaho.gov
*Vice Chair:* Jim Guthrie:  JGuthrie at senate.idaho.gov
<JWoodward at senate.idaho.gov>

Chuck Winder: CWinder at senate.idaho.gov
Kelly Anthon:  KAnthon at senate.idaho.gov

Mark Harris: MHarris at senate.idaho.gov

Abby Lee: Alee at senate.idaho.gov

Lee Heider: LHeider at senate.idaho.gov

Michelle Stennett: MStennett at senate.idaho.gov

Grant Burgoyne: GBurgoyne at senate.idaho.gov








Agenda/Minutes published:

Senate State Affairs
<https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2021/standingcommittees/SSTA>:
*Wed., Apr. 7, 2021 8:00 A.M.*
Download Agenda (PDF)
<https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2021/standingcommittees/210407_ssta_0800AM-Agenda.pdf>

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