1 | A bill to be entitled |
2 | An act relating to challenging a person desiring to vote; |
3 | amending s. 101.111, F.S.; prohibiting a voter from being |
4 | challenged on the basis of certain documents; prohibiting |
5 | certain persons from submitting a formal challenge to an |
6 | individual's eligibility to register to vote or to vote in |
7 | any election under certain circumstances; providing an |
8 | effective date. |
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10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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12 | Section 1. Present subsection (2) of section 101.111, |
13 | Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), and new |
14 | subsections (2) and (3) are added to that section, to read: |
15 | 101.111 Person desiring to vote may be challenged; |
16 | challenger to execute oath; oath of person challenged; |
17 | determination of challenge.-- |
18 | (2) A voter may not be challenged on the basis of the |
19 | following documents: |
20 | (a) A "voter caging document," which is defined as a |
21 | nonforwardable document that is sent by a person other than a |
22 | state or local election official and that is returned to the |
23 | sender or a third party as undelivered or undeliverable despite |
24 | an attempt to deliver such document to the address of a |
25 | registered voter or an applicant for registration; |
26 | (b) A list of individuals compiled from voter caging |
27 | documents; or |
28 | (c) A list produced by matching the information of |
29 | registered voters or applicants for voter registration to a list |
30 | of individuals who are ineligible to vote by virtue of death, |
31 | conviction, change of address, or otherwise, unless one of the |
32 | pieces of information matched includes a signature, photograph, |
33 | or unique identifying number ensuring that the information from |
34 | each source refers to the same individual. |
35 | (3) A person who is not a state or local election official |
36 | may not submit a formal challenge to an individual's eligibility |
37 | to register to vote or to vote in any election if the basis for |
38 | such challenge is evidence consisting of an error or omission on |
39 | any record or paper relating to any application, registration, |
40 | or other act requisite to voting, and if such error or omission |
41 | is not material to the individual's eligibility to vote as |
42 | provided by law. |
43 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009. |