Amends TCA Title 2.

ON APRIL 12, 2023, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 1007, AS AMENDED.<br /> <br /> AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to revise present law relative to procedures for voting at a polling place.<br /> <br /> Under present law, the county election commission must use either a computerized voter signature list or an electronic poll book that has been approved for use by the coordinator of elections. A computerized voter signature list must include the voter's name, current address of residence, social security number or voter identification number, birth date and a space for the voter's signature, elections voted, application or ballot stub number, or both, and precinct registrar's initials. The electronic poll book must contain the same information as on the computerized voter signature list in an electronic format and provide a place on its screen for the precinct registrar to record elections voted, application or ballot stub number, or both, the precinct registrar's initials and a place for the voter's signature.<br /> <br /> For those counties using the computerized voter signature list, the following procedures must be followed:<br /> <br /> (1) After completing the application for ballot, the voter must sign the computerized voter signature list, and the registrar must compare the voter's signature and information on the signature list with the information on the application for ballot; and<br /> <br /> (2) If, upon comparison of the information, the registrar determines that the voter is entitled to vote, the registrar must initial the computerized voter signature list and must give the voter the ballot application, which is the voter's authorization to vote.<br /> <br /> For those counties using the electronic poll book, after completing the application for ballot which must include the voter's signature, if, upon comparison of the information, the registrar determines that the voter is entitled to vote, the registrar must initial the application for ballot and must give the voter the ballot application, which is the voter's authorization to vote.<br /> <br /> This amendment takes out the option for a computerized voter list to include either the voter's social security number or voter identification number, and, instead, requires that the voter identification number be included. This amendment also requires that if a place for the voter's signature is not available on the electronic poll book screen, then the voter must sign the printed application. <br /> <br /> Under present law, each state primary board must prescribe a color for its party's primary ballots which must be uniform throughout the state and different from every other party's. This amendment deletes this provision. <br />