Welcome to legislation

1. Welcome to legislation

2. 2019 Election Bills of Interest David Elliott, Policy Director, Office of the Secretary of State Amy Cohen, Executive Director, NASED

3. SSB5063 Postage for all • All voters • All elections • State Pays • The Elections Division is working with each county to get the best rate • None of the bills on envelopes passed the legislature

4. SB 5227 8-day in person voting period • Starting on the Monday a week before the election, address changes must be in person • Transfers and new registrations now have the same deadlines: • All remote methods received before the 8th day • After 8th day: in-person

5. ESB 5273 Presidential Primary • New date 2nd Tuesday in March (March 10, 2020) • The parties: • choose their candidates - finalize 63 days before • have option to include “uncommitted” • have option of write-in candidates 7days before. • These are the only write-ins to be counted. • Certification is10 days • Notifications must be published in newspapers

6. ESSB 5079 Native American Voting Rights Act • Clarifies use of non-traditional addresses on tribal land • Use of tribal ID for online registration if signature included • Tribes can request ballot box placement • Auditor must provide at least one, if requested • If not provided, auditor subject to civil lawsuit compelling placement • Notification prior to filing suit to allow discussion • Time period of notification depends on how close to next election.

7. SSB 5266 WVRA clean up • Clarifies that a jurisdiction (cities) that loses a WVRA lawsuit, or agrees to a settlement, requiring creation or redrawing of internal director districts, there must be an election in all districts. • Incumbents can run, but they cannot be held over until the next election. • This was the intent of the original WVRA, but questions were raised.

8. SB 5207 Felon notification • When a person leaves DOC authority, the DOC must provide a voter registration form and advise the person of their right to vote.

9. SHB 1545 Timely signature curing • Counties must update information about cured signatures within 24 hours • When notices sent • Signature updates • VoteWA makes this process automatic

10. 2SSB 5287 Counting prisoners back home • Only Legislative and Congressional districts. • The redistricting commission must attempt to count prison residents, juvenile justice residents over 18, and people involuntarily committed for inpatient treatment at their last known address rather than the facility. • Not for local district drawing.

11. SB 5074 Faithless Electors • If a Presidential Elector is unwilling to vote for the winner of the popular vote, they must be replaced with a person that will. • The result of the 2016 electoral college process in which four Washington electors refused to vote for Secretary Clinton

12. SSB 5502 Aligning statute with constitution • The redistricting commission must complete their work by Nov 15 in the year ending in “1”. • This should make it so that counties have the LD and CD lines sooner • Does not impact the delivery of census data to the counties and other jurisdictions. (That happens sooner.)

13. What are we hearing about next session? • Interest in cyber-security • Interest in vote tabulation system replacement • Interest in jail voting • Interest in Risk Limiting Audits • What are you hearing?

14. What is happening nationally? • Amy Cohen is the Executive Director of • National Association of State Election Directors • Take it away Amy!

15. Questions? Ideas for next year?