Voter Registration and Privacy
Arizona SB 1013 requires the secretary of state to submit a request to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission asking that the federal voter registration form include Arizona specific instructions for providing proof of citizenship.
Arizona SB 1170 requires the Game and Fish Department to provide voter registration assistance, including a link to the state voter registration web page for online applicants, and a voter registration form to in person applicants.
Arizona SB 1477 requires the superior court to report felony convictions to the secretary of state for voter registration cancellation purposes.
Arizona HB 2236 prohibits automatic voter registration unless an individual affirmatively requests to register to vote.
Arizona HB 2237 prohibits Election Day voter registration.
Arizona HB 2492 requires proof of citizenship to register to vote; requires the attorney general to investigate and prosecute applicants who fail to provide proof of citizenship and are found to be noncitizens; establishes criminal penalties for election officials who knowingly register a noncitizen applicant.
Arizona SB 1260 permits the cancellation of a voter’s registration and active early voting list if a county recorder receives information from another county’s recorder that the voter is registered in that county. Establishes a penalty for forwarding early ballots to voters who’ve since registered out of state.
Arizona HB 2243 permits the use of jury lists for voter list maintenance purposes, including residency and citizenship status. Establishes reporting from the Department of Transportation to the secretary of state on address changes and citizenship status. Requires monthly voter list maintenance by the secretary of state. Requires quarterly reporting of certain voter registration list maintenance activities by the secretary of state to the legislature.
California SB 504 clarifies language regarding mail ballot applications to account for the state’s move to all-mail voting. Clarifies that otherwise qualified military and overseas voters and voters with disabilities may complete a conditional voter registration and cast a provisional ballot or nonprovisional ballot. Requires the secretary of state to compare information from the state Department of Corrections for list maintenance purposes. Requires county election officials to notify persons who have been released from imprisonment that their voting rights are restored, that they may register to vote and of the procedures for registering to vote.
Colorado SB 152 allows for a person whose residence is destroyed or becomes uninhabitable to continue to use the address of the residence as the person’s residence for purposes of voting if the person intends to return to the residence once it is replaced or becomes habitable.
Colorado HB 1273 makes it unlawful for a person to threaten, coerce, intimidate or make attempts thereof against an election official with the intent to interfere with the official’s duties or to retaliate against the official for the performance of their duties. Prohibits a person from making the personal information of an election official or an election official’s immediate family publicly available on the internet. Provides for relevant criminal penalties.
Connecticut SB 470 clarifies that any motor vehicle operator's license number, identity card number, Social Security number and any other unique identifier contained in a voter’s record is confidential.
Delaware SB 294 proposes a “first leg” amendment updating the minimum voting age in the State Constitution from 21 to 18 years old. (Note: A First Leg amendment must be approved by the next General Assembly to become part of the Constitution. A Second Leg amendment becomes part of the Constitution upon passage of both Chambers of the subsequent General Assembly.)
Delaware HB 25 establishes Election Day registration for presidential primary, primary, special and general elections.
Florida SB 524 establishes the Office of Election Crimes and Security, increases criminal penalties for certain election offenses and requires the governor to appoint special officers to investigate election law violations. For list maintenance purposes, requires reporting of felony convictions by circuit courts and reporting of noncitizens by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Replaces “drop box” with “ballot intake stations” and provides clarifying language. Requires the Department of State to develop a plan to confirm the identity of each person returning a vote-by-mail ballot and to share that report with the legislature. Prohibits the use of ranked-choice voting.
Guam B 174 changes the close of the voter registration period from 10 days to 21 days prior to an election. Permits electronic voter registration. Changes the date of an even-numbered year primary to the first Saturday of August. Changes the timeframe for filing candidate nominating papers to 90-160 days prior to the date of an election.
Idaho HB 694 allows for the public request of lists of deaths reported to the secretary of state from the state health and welfare board.
Idaho SB 1351 requires the secretary of state and county clerks to submit an annual report to the legislature on voter registration list maintenance activities.
Kentucky HB 564 adds language clarifying that voters must be U.S. citizens. Establishes early in-person absentee voting for all voters on Thursday, Friday and Saturday proceeding Election Day. Establishes in-person absentee voting with an excuse beginning six days before the no-excuse early voting period. Prohibits the early disclosure of unofficial ballot count totals. Requires tamper resistant seals on voting equipment before and after the days of early in-person voting. Establishes chain of custody procedures. Permits the electronic transmission of ballots to voters with disabilities. Prohibits voting equipment from being connected to the internet. Establishes a risk-limiting audit pilot program.
Louisiana HB 423 requires each public-school governing authority to provide an opportunity for each high school senior who is at least seventeen years old to register to vote.
Massachusetts SB 2924 establishes no-excuse absentee voting. Requires the secretary of the commonwealth to send absentee/mail ballot applications to all registered voters before each election. Establishes an online absentee/mail ballot request portal. Increases the early in-person voting period to two weeks (including two weekends) for biennial elections and one week (including one weekend) for presidential or state primaries. Permits electronic voting for military and overseas voters. Permits voters with disabilities to request absentee ballot applications, voter affidavits and ballots electronically and permits return by mail, drop box or electronic transmission. Requires distribution of voter information in correctional facilities. Requires correctional officers to assist in voter registration efforts and absentee/mail ballot requests for eligible incarcerated voters. Changes the voter registration deadline from 20 to 10 days before an election.
Mississippi HB 1510 requires the registrar upon receiving a completed voter registration application to enter the applicant into the Statewide Elections Management System. Requires registration applications to be compared with the Department of Public Safety Driver's License and Identification Information; requires notification to the registrar if such information reveals that the applicant is not a citizen of the United States. Requires entry of a potential non-citizen into the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database for further inquiry. Requires the registrar to send a notice by first-class mail to the applicant's mailing address inquiring whether the individual is eligible to be registered to vote if both databases indicate that the applicant is not a citizen.
Missouri HB 1878 establishes two weeks of early in-person voting for any eligible voter. Requires returned absentee ballots to be notarized if not requested and completed in person at an election office with photo identification. Prohibits the use of mail-in ballots (as opposed to absentee ballots) and ballot drop boxes. Requires photo identification for in-person voting. Changes provisional ballot affidavit to require voters to return to their polling location with an accepted photo ID the same day as the provisional ballot is marked. Prohibits a public official from compromising, settling, agreeing or consenting in any state or civil action. Authorizes quarterly audits of voter registration lists by the secretary of state. Prohibits the receipt or use of private money, excluding in-kind donations, for election administration or voter registration purposes. Prohibits any individual demonstrating non-citizenship status from being offered to register to vote at the DMV. Requires party declaration for any voter registering after Jan. 1, 2023; requires party registration on voter identification cards. Requires all voting machines to produce an auditable paper ballot after Jan. 1, 2024. Requires election office cybersecurity reviews every two years.
New Hampshire HB 1010 requires municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.
New Hampshire HB 1496 requires political subdivisions to make voter checklists available in electronic form to any resident.
New Hampshire HB 1594 permits discussion of voter registration as an appropriate community living/citizenship training goal or competency for students 17 years of age or older with an individualized education program or accommodations under Section 504.
New Jersey AB 3817 requires the installation of privacy screens, shields and other features in voting booths. By Jan. 1, 2026, requires online voter registration applications to allow voters to request mail in ballots. Requires the secretary of state to develop an electronic form to allow a registered voter to complete a change of residence notice, change of name notice, or both, and to electronically submit that form to the appropriate county commissioner of registration.
New York SB 1046 enacts the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, establishing rights of action for denying or abridging of the right of any member of a protected class to vote. Requires certain political subdivisions to receive preclearance for potential violations of the NYVRA. Creates civil liability for voter intimidation.
New York AB 7748 expands voter registration confidentiality to include victims of certain sexually violent crimes.
New York SB 2951 changes the date to submit federal election commission voter registration applications in person from 25 to 15 days prior to an election and from 20 to ten days by mail.
Ohio HB 93 permits Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) participants to give permission to disclose information for the purpose of verifying a residential address to access related state services. Permits ACP participants to submit a real property confidentiality notice to the county recorder for the purpose of keeping residential address and property information confidential.
Oklahoma HB 2974 directs the State Election Board to perform a query of the entire voter registration database to determine how many individuals are registered at the same residential address.
Oklahoma HB 2976 creates an exception for sharing information in the registration database with the court system.
Oklahoma HB 3365 directs new voter identification cards to be mailed to the physical address of the voter if such address is valid to receive mail delivery. Provides that the registration of any registered voter shall be cancelled only for one of several specified reasons.
Oklahoma HB 4133 requires electronic voter registration systems to allow qualified individuals to register to vote if they have a Social Security number.
Oregon HB 4144 establishes that the crime of harassment includes harassment of election workers. Allows election workers to have their addresses removed from public record. Directs the secretary of state to update the central voter register at least four times a year.
Rhode Island SB 2091 allows the local board to review registration lists and hear objections to the inclusion or omission of any person so long as the time and place of the meeting is posted on the city’s official website for the 10 previous days.
Rhode Island SB 2007 directs the secretary of state to provide a free telephone hotline to answer questions about the electoral process, and that the service be available in multiple languages. Requires the secretary of state to update the central voter register using the United States Postal Service National Change of Address (NCOA) Program at least four times a year.
South Carolina SB 108 requires each county to establish at least one early voting center. Permits counties to establish up to seven days of early voting from Monday through Saturday during the two-week period immediately preceding an election. Establishes hours for early voting centers for state general, runoffs and other elections. Permits certain categories of voters to vote absentee for an election if they are unable to vote during the early voting period or on Election Day. Permits people with disabilities, persons 65 or older, members of the armed forces and their dependents and persons admitted as emergency room patients on or within a four-day period before an election to vote absentee regardless of whether the voter is able to vote during the early voting period or on Election Day. Establishes absentee ballot request requirements. Prohibits a person from requesting absentee applications for more than five eligible voters, including him/herself. Establishes identification requirements for the return of absentee ballots. Permits pre-processing of absentee ballots. Prohibits voting machines from being connected to the internet. Requires the retention of electronic statewide election records for 24 months following an election. Requires annual voter registration list maintenance by the executive director of the State Election Commission. Establishes eligibility requirements for members of the State Election Commission. Requires advice and consent of the state senate for appointment of executive director of the State Election Commission.
Tennessee HB 2128 expressly prohibits non-United States citizens from voting in federal, state or local elections in this state. It also prohibits local governments from granting non-citizens the right to vote in local elections.
Utah HB 67 requires the lieutenant governor and county clerks to regularly update the official register of voters.
Virginia HB 55 requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections by electronic means a weekly list of all persons 17 years of age or older who have died since the previous weekly list.
Virginia SB 698 prohibits publishing on the internet any of the information contained in voter registration lists as a list, database or other similar searchable format or providing information to a third party for such purpose.
Virginia HB 1140 requires general registrars to provide notice of the cancellation of a voter's registration to the voter by mail, to the address listed in the voter's registration record, and by email, if one was provided.
West Virginia HB 4450 removes the fee charged and deposited in the Combined Voter Registration and Driver's Licensing Fund for each driver's license issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.