HB155 Alabama 2021 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Randy Wood RepresentativeRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2021
- Title
- Absentee voting, eliminating requirement that affidavit accompanying absentee ballot be witnessed or notarized, Sec. 17-11-7, 17-11-10 am'd.
- Description
Under existing state law, each absentee ballot must be accompanied by an affidavit witnessed by two witnesses or a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths.
Under federal law, individuals voting under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act are no longer required to have their affidavit witnessed by two witnesses or a notary public or other officer authorized to acknowledge oaths.
This bill would eliminate the state law requirement that the affidavit accompanying absentee ballots be witnessed by two witnesses or a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths for individuals voting under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
- Subjects
- Absentee Voting
Bill Actions
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature