‘An Act To Ensure Verification of Residency for Voter Registration’
| HP0174 LD 203 |
First Regular Session - 123rd Legislature - Text: MS-Word, RTF or PDF |
LR 1100 Item 2 |
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| Bill Tracking | Chamber Status | ||
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Ensure Verification of Residency for Voter Registration’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §112, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 1997, c. 436, §20, is further amended to read:
(1) A direct statement of intention by the person pursuant to section 121, subsection 1;
(2) The location of any dwelling currently occupied by the person;
(6) The place where any motor vehicle owned by the person is registered;
(8) The residence address, not a post office box, shown on a current income tax return;
(9) The residence address, not a post office box, at which the person's person receives first class mail is received;
(10) The residence address, not a post office box, shown on any current resident hunting or fishing licenses held by the person;
(12) The residence address, not a post office box, shown on any motor vehicle operator's license held by the person;
(14) The receipt of any public benefit conditioned upon residency, defined substantially as provided in this subsection; or
(16) Any other objective facts tending to indicate a person's place of residence.
Sec. 2. 21-A MRSA §112, sub-§1, ¶C is enacted to read:
Sec. 3. 21-A MRSA §121, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, is amended to read:
Sec. 4. 21-A MRSA §121, sub-§3 is enacted to read:
summary
This amendment replaces the bill and is the minority report of the committee. The amendment clarifies that mail with the residence of address of a person seeking to register to vote offered to a registrar for the purposes of determining residency must be first class mail. It also removes from the list of factors that may be used by the registrar to determine residency the simple statement of a location or dwelling a person claims to occupy as a residence. This amendment provides that a registrar, when requiring an oath to affirm a claim of residency, may also require the person seeking to register as a voter to state that the voter surrenders the person's voter registration in any other jurisdiction. Finally, this amendment requires a registrar to forward a copy of those sworn statements to the Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services.