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1-2-505. Services at Voter Registration Agencies—Services to Persons with Disabilities

Overview of Statute

Voter registration agencies must distribute voter registration application forms, assist with the completion of the forms upon request, and accept completed application forms for transfer to the appropriate county clerk and recorder. These services must also be provided to persons with disabilities if the voter registration agency provides services at the individual’s home.

Statute

(1) At each voter registration agency, the following services shall be made available with each application made in person for service or assistance and with each recertification, renewal, or change of address form relating to the service or assistance:

(a) Distribution of mail voter registration application forms;

(b) Assistance to applicants in completing agency voter registration application forms, unless the applicant refuses such assistance; and

(c) Acceptance of completed agency voter registration application forms for transmittal to the appropriate county clerk and recorder.

(2) If a voter registration agency provides services to a person with a disability at the person’s home, the agency shall provide the services described in subsection (1) of this section at the person’s home.

L. 94: Entire part added, p. 1764, § 21, effective January 1, 1995.

Definition [Person]

Any natural person, partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization, political party, or other organization or group of persons. Section 2(11) of article XXVIII of the state constitution.

Definition [Section]

A bound compilation of initiative forms approved by the secretary of state, which shall include pages that contain the warning required by section 1-40-110 (1), the ballot title, the abstract required by section 1-40-110 (3), and a copy of the proposed measure; succeeding pages that contain the warning, the ballot title, and ruled lines numbered consecutively for registered electors’ signatures; and a final page that contains the affidavit required by section 1-40-111 (2). Each section shall be consecutively prenumbered by the petitioner prior to circulation.

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