TO: | Honorable Larry Taylor, Chair, House Committee on Elections |
FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB2875 by Davis, Sarah (Relating to election practices and procedures pertaining to voters not included on the poll list.), As Introduced |
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
The Comal County Clerk reported many counties currently use an electronic means of registering votes and no longer use a paper poll list. When a voter is entered into the system, it automatically flags it as a Federal Postcard Application, mail ballot or provisional; the address is already in the system. A provisional voter is required to be put on a separate list which is then reconciled to the ballots before those provisional ballots are submitted to the voter registrar for validation, as required by current statute. The clerk also noted that there could be 200 pages of voter sign-in sheets and to require additional copies of a poll list to be printed would require more time and costs for paper.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, JT, TP
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