[Nfbmo] Accessible Voting Bill - HB1901

[Shelia Wright]

News about filing of Accessible voting Bill

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 1901

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRISAMORE.

 

 

AN ACT

To repeal section 115.436, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new
section relating to voter accessibility.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

 

            Section A. Section 115.436, RSMo, is repealed and one new
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.436, to read as
follows:

            115.436. 1. In jurisdictions using paper ballots and electronic
voting systems, when any physically disabled voter within two hundred feet
of a polling place is unable to enter the polling place, two election
judges, one of each major political party, shall take a ballot, equipment
and materials necessary for voting to the voter. The voter shall mark the
ballot, and the election judges shall place the ballot in an envelope, seal
it and place it in the ballot box. 

            2. In jurisdictions using voting machines, when any physically
disabled voter within two hundred feet of a polling place is unable to enter
the polling place, two election judges, one of each major political party,
shall take an absentee ballot to the voter. The voter shall mark the ballot,
and the election judges shall place the ballot in an envelope, seal it and
place it in the ballot box. 

            3. Upon request to the election authority, the election
authority in any jurisdiction shall designate a polling place accessible to
any physically disabled voter other than the polling place to which that
voter would normally be assigned to vote, provided that the candidates and
issues voted on are consistent for both the designated location and the
voting location for the voter's precinct. Upon request, the election
authority may also assign members of the physically disabled voter's
household and such voter's caregiver to the same voting location as the
physically disabled voter. In no event shall a voter be assigned under this
section to a designated location apart from the established voting location
for the voter's precinct if the voter objects to the assignment to another
location. 

            4. For any federal, state, county, municipal, or school district
election held after August 28, 2012, each polling place shall have at least
one accessible voting system that conforms to 42 U.S.C. Section
15481(a)(3)(B), as amended. Such voting system shall have been qualified by
the secretary of state for use by local election authorities.

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