Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1246
       
       
       
       By Senator Justice
       
       
       
       
       16-01262-10                                           20101246__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to elections; amending s. 101.62,
    3         F.S.; authorizing an elector to attain status as a
    4         permanent absentee voter; specifying circumstances
    5         under which a request for an absentee ballot may be
    6         considered canceled; providing an effective date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   11  101.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         101.62 Request for absentee ballots.—
   13         (1)(a) The supervisor may accept a request for an absentee
   14  ballot from an elector in person or in writing. Except as
   15  provided in s. 101.694, one request shall be deemed sufficient
   16  to receive an absentee ballot for all future elections through
   17  the next two regularly scheduled general elections, unless the
   18  elector or the elector’s designee indicates at the time the
   19  request is made that the elections for which the elector desires
   20  to receive the an absentee ballot only for specific elections. A
   21  Such request for an absentee ballot may be considered canceled
   22  when any first-class mail sent by the supervisor to the elector
   23  is returned as undeliverable or when the elector notifies the
   24  supervisor in person or in writing that he or she no longer
   25  wishes to receive an absentee ballot.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.