"Sec. 3   RCW 29A.08.625 and 2003 c 111 s 240 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) A voter whose registration has been made inactive under this chapter and who offers to vote at an ensuing election before two federal elections have been held must be allowed to vote a regular ballot and the voter's registration restored to active status.
     (2) A voter whose registration has been properly canceled under this chapter shall vote a provisional ballot. The voter shall mark the provisional ballot in secrecy, the ballot placed in a security envelope, the security envelope placed in a provisional ballot envelope, and the reasons for the use of the provisional ballot noted.
     (3) Upon receipt of such a voted provisional ballot the auditor shall investigate the circumstances surrounding the original cancellation. If he or she determines that the cancellation was in error, the voter's registration must be immediately reinstated, and the voter's provisional ballot must be counted. If the original cancellation was not in error, the voter must be afforded the opportunity to reregister at his or her correct address, and the voter's provisional ballot must not be counted.
     (4) The names and addresses of provisional voters is not a matter of public record, and no one other than an election officer may contact an individual provisional voter."

"Sec. 5   RCW 29A.40.130 and 2003 c 111 s 1013 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 has received for absentee ballots under this chapter.
     The information from the requests shall be recorded and lists of this information shall be available no later than twenty-four hours after their receipt.
     This information about absentee voters shall be available according to the date of the requests and by legislative district. It shall 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 available to the public for the actual cost of production or copying. However, these records may not be used by anyone other than an election officer to contact an individual absentee voter."

"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 7   A new section is added to chapter 29A.60 RCW to read as follows:
     If the county auditor receives an absentee or mail ballot in a return identification envelope on which the voter's signature is missing, illegible, or does not match the registration file, only the county auditor or other election officer may contact the voter regarding the signature. The names of voters in these cases is not a matter of public record."