| 1 | Representative Randolph offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (167836) (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 101-155 and insert: |
| 5 | (3)(a) A third-party voter registration organization that |
| 6 | collects voter registration applications or a political party, |
| 7 | third-party organization, or campaign that collects absentee |
| 8 | ballot requests or completed absentee ballots serves as a |
| 9 | fiduciary to the applicant, ensuring that any voter registration |
| 10 | application or absentee ballot application or absentee ballot |
| 11 | entrusted to the entity third-party voter registration |
| 12 | organization, irrespective of party affiliation, race, |
| 13 | ethnicity, or gender, shall be promptly delivered to the |
| 14 | division or the supervisor of elections within 48 hours after |
| 15 | the applicant completes it or the next business day if the |
| 16 | appropriate office is closed for that 48-hour period. If a voter |
| 17 | registration application, absentee ballot request, or completed |
| 18 | absentee ballot collected by any third-party voter registration |
| 19 | organization is not promptly delivered to the division or |
| 20 | supervisor of elections, the third-party voter registration |
| 21 | organization, political party, third-party organization, or |
| 22 | campaign is shall be liable for the following fines: |
| 23 | 1.(a) A fine in the amount of $50 for each application, |
| 24 | absentee ballot request, or completed absentee ballot received |
| 25 | by the division or the supervisor of elections more than 48 |
| 26 | hours 10 days after the applicant delivered the completed voter |
| 27 | registration application, absentee ballot request, or absentee |
| 28 | ballot to the third-party voter registration organization, |
| 29 | political party, third-party organization, or campaign or any |
| 30 | person, entity, or agent acting on its behalf, or the next |
| 31 | business day, if the office is closed. A fine in the amount of |
| 32 | $250 for each application, absentee ballot request, or completed |
| 33 | absentee ballot received if the third-party voter registration |
| 34 | organization, political party, third-party organization, or |
| 35 | campaign or any registration organization or person, entity, or |
| 36 | agency acting on its behalf acted willfully. |
| 37 | 2.(b) A fine in the amount of $100 for each application, |
| 38 | absentee ballot request, or completed absentee ballot collected |
| 39 | by a third-party voter registration organization, political |
| 40 | party, third-party organization, or campaign or any person, |
| 41 | entity, or agent acting on its behalf, before prior to book |
| 42 | closing for any given election for federal or state office and |
| 43 | received by the division or the supervisor of elections after |
| 44 | the book closing deadline for such election. A fine in the |
| 45 | amount of $500 for each application, absentee ballot request, or |
| 46 | competed absentee ballot received if the third-party voter |
| 47 | registration organization, political party, third-party |
| 48 | organization, or campaign or any or person, entity, or agency |
| 49 | acting on its behalf acted willfully. |
| 50 | 3.(c) A fine in the amount of $500 for each application, |
| 51 | absentee ballot request, or completed absentee ballot collected |
| 52 | by a third-party voter registration organization, political |
| 53 | party, third-party organization, or campaign or any person, |
| 54 | entity, or agent acting on its behalf, which is not submitted to |
| 55 | the division or supervisor of elections. A fine in the amount of |
| 56 | $1,000 for any application, absentee ballot request, or competed |
| 57 | absentee ballot not submitted if the third-party registration |
| 58 | organization, political party, third-party organization, or |
| 59 | campaign or any or person, entity, or agency acting on its |
| 60 | behalf acted willfully. |
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| 62 | The aggregate fine pursuant to this paragraph subsection which |
| 63 | may be assessed against a third-party voter registration |
| 64 | organization, including affiliate organizations, or a political |
| 65 | party, third-party organization, or campaign that collects |
| 66 | absentee ballot requests or completed absentee ballots for |
| 67 | violations committed in a calendar year is shall be $1,000. |
| 68 | (b) A showing by the fines provided in this subsection |
| 69 | shall be reduced by three-fourths in cases in which the third- |
| 70 | party voter registration organization, or the political party, |
| 71 | third-party organization, or campaign that collects absentee |
| 72 | ballot requests or completed absenttee ballots that the failure |
| 73 | to deliver the voter registration applications or absentee |
| 74 | ballot requests within the required timeframe is based upon |
| 75 | force majeure or impossibility of performance is an affirmative |
| 76 | defense to a violation of this subsection has complied with |
| 77 | subsection (1). The secretary may shall waive the fines |
| 78 | described in this subsection upon a showing that the failure to |
| 79 | deliver the voter registration application promptly is based |
| 80 | upon force majeure or impossibility of performance. |
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| 84 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 85 | Remove lines 3963-3964 and insert: |
| 86 | third-party voter registration organizations, or political |
| 87 | parties, third-party organizations, or campaigns that collect |
| 88 | absentee ballot requests or completed absentee ballots to |
| 89 | deliver collected voter registration applications, absentee |
| 90 | ballot requests, or completed absentee ballots |