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                     ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1508

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Wensman, D. Schmidt, Cooper, Chopp, Doumit, Blalock, Dickerson, B. Thomas and Thompson

Read first time 01/29/97.  Referred to Committee on Government Administration.

Maintaining a list of absentee ballots. 

    AN ACT Relating to absentee ballots; and amending RCW 29.36.097.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 29.36.097 and 1991 c 81 s 33 are each amended to read as follows:

    Each county auditor shall maintain ((in his or her office, open for public inspection,)) a record of the requests ((he or she)) the auditor has received for absentee ballots ((under this chapter)), a listing of all ongoing absentee voters, and a cumulative listing of the names of voters whose absentee ballots have been returned before each primary and election.

    The ((information from the)) record of requests ((shall be recorded and lists of this information shall)) for absentee ballots and list of the names of voters whose absentee ballots have been returned before a primary or election must be available no later than ((twenty-four hours)) the next business day after their receipt.  The list of ongoing absentee voters must be available at all times.

    ((This)) Information about absentee voters ((shall)) requesting absentee ballots will be available according to the date of the requests and by legislative district.  ((It shall)) Information about ongoing absentee voters will be available by legislative district.  This information must include the name of each applicant, the address and precinct in which the voter maintains a voting residence, the date on which an absentee ballot was issued to this voter, if applicable, the type of absentee ballot, and the address to which the ballot was or is to be mailed, if applicable.

    ((The auditor shall make copies of)) These records shall be available to the public for ((the actual cost of production or)) inspection and copying.

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