Chapter 113
2012 -- H 7561
Enacted 05/30/12
A N A C T
RELATING TO
ELECTIONS - REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
Introduced
By: Representatives Keable, San Bento,
Date Introduced: February 15, 2012
It is enacted by the
General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 17-9.1-25 of the General Laws in Chapter
17-9.1 entitled
"Registration of
Voters" is hereby amended to read as follows:
17-9.1-25.
Acknowledgement of registration or change of address -- Verification of
residence. -- (a)
The local board of each city or town shall mail an
acknowledgement notice to
each newly registered voter and to each voter who changes
his or her voting residence within
seven (7) days after receipt of the registration or change
of residence. The acknowledgement
notice shall notify the applicant for registration of the
disposition of the application, i.e., whether
the application is deemed accepted or denied. If denied,
the reason for the denial shall be
indicated on the notice. The acknowledgement notice shall be
mailed to the applicant at the
address from which he or she registered and shall be clearly
marked: "Do Not Forward -- Return
If Undeliverable". Provided, however, that the New Shoreham Board of
Canvassers may address
the acknowledgement notice, and any other notice that may
be required by this chapter, to the
person's post office box if said post office box is located
within the confines of New Shoreham.
Provided, further that in any other city or town in
which some postal customers are not eligible to
receive home mail delivery from the
street ranges are certified as such to the secretary of
state, the city or town shall address the
acknowledgment card and any other notice that may be required by
this chapter to the United
States postal service post office box at which the
voter receives mail.
(b) The acknowledgement
form shall be a postal card of a size and other specifications
that shall be determined by the state board and shall be
substantially in the following form;
provided, that the wording of the form may be revised and
updated from time to time by the state
board in a manner to make its content as easily readable
and understandable as possible:
Front Side
Board of Canvassers Affix
Address of Board of
Canvassers Postage
for
the city or town in which registered
ADDRESS CORRECTION
REQUESTED RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED DO
NOT FORWARD
Voter's Name
Voter's
Address
______________________________________________________________________________
Reverse Side
______________________________________________________________________________
Your application to register to vote has been received
and accepted. The following is information
concerning your voting districts.
Your U.S. Representative
District is _________________________________________
Your State Senate
District is ________________________________________________
Your Representative
District is ______________________________________________
Your Council District is
_________________________________________________
Your
Your Voting District is
____________________________________________________
Locations of polling
places for these districts may be obtained from newspaper
advertisements preceding each election or by calling your local
board. Your application to
register to vote has been received incomplete. Please contact
our office at the telephone number
or address listed below. Your application to register to
vote has been rejected because
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
If this card is addressed to a person who does not
live at this address, please ask your mail carrier
to return it to the sender.
Board of Canvassers
Address
Telephone Number
(c) The form may also
contain any other information that may be required by the state
board.
(d) Those notices that
are returned as undeliverable to the local board shall be reviewed
to verify that the address was correctly printed on the
notice. All notices returned as undeliverable
shall be attached to the registration notices and
maintained as a record of the local board.
(e) Any voter whose
application to register to vote has been accepted, but whose
acknowledgement notice has been returned by postal authorities as
undeliverable, shall be placed
on an inactive list of voters and shall not be permitted
to vote unless an affirmation form is
completed. The local board shall be required, upon receipt of
the undeliverable acknowledgement
notice, to commence the confirmation process described in
section 17-9.1-26.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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