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SENATE BILL 5169
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Barr, Haugen, Bluechel, McCaslin, Snyder, Owen, von Reichbauer, Sellar and Oke
Read first time 01/15/93. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
AN ACT Relating to the presidential preference primary; amending RCW 29.13.047 and 29.19.050; and repealing RCW 29.19.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 29.13.047 and 1985 c 45 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Whenever state officers or measures are voted upon at a state primary or general election held in an odd-numbered year under RCW 29.13.010, the state of Washington shall assume a prorated share of the costs of that state primary or general election.
(2) Whenever a primary or vacancy election is held to fill a vacancy in the position of United States senator or United States representative under chapter 29.68 RCW, the state of Washington shall assume a prorated share of the costs of that primary or vacancy election.
(3) Whenever a presidential preference primary election is held under chapter 29.19 RCW, the state of Washington shall assume all costs of holding the election if it is held alone. If any other election or elections are held at the same time, the state is liable only for its prorated share.
(4) The county auditor shall apportion the state's share of these expenses when prorating election costs under RCW 29.13.045 and shall file such expense claims with the secretary of state.
(((4))) (5) The secretary of
state shall include in his or her biennial budget requests sufficient funds to
carry out this section. Reimbursements for election costs shall be from
appropriations specifically provided by law for that purpose.
Sec. 2. RCW 29.19.050 and 1989 c 4 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
Insofar as is practicable, and where the provisions of this chapter do not specifically indicate otherwise, the presidential preference primary shall be conducted in the same manner as a state partisan primary, including the certification of the election returns by the secretary of state. The requirement of rotation of names on the ballot does not apply to the candidates listed on the presidential preference primary ballot. County auditors may combine and consolidate two or more precincts for the purpose of conducting the presidential preference primary only if precinct vote totals for the primary can still be made available and the consolidation does not require a voter to go to a location different from that of the last regular election.
Each person desiring to vote in the
presidential preference primary shall ((receive a ballot request form on
which the voter shall sign his or her name and address and declare)) orally
request the ballot for the party primary in which he or she wishes to
participate. No record may be made of which party's ballot a voter receives
and no voter may receive more than one ballot.
((The secretary shall prescribe rules for
providing each party central committee a list of the voters who participated in
the presidential primary of that party.
The signed ballot request forms shall be
maintained in the centralized containers by the county auditor for a period of
time as specified by rule of the secretary of state, after which time they
shall be destroyed, unless otherwise directed by federal law.))
At a presidential preference primary, a voter may cast no more than one vote on a ballot. Any presidential preference primary ballot with more than one vote is void, and notice to this effect, couched in clear, simple language, and printed in large type, shall appear on the face of each presidential preference primary ballot. Where voting machines or electronic voting devices are in use, the notice shall be displayed on or about each machine or device.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. RCW 29.19.080 and 1989 c 4 s 8 are each repealed.
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