Provides protections against illegal voter purging

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◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Brian Kavanagh says this is needed

It is essential that challenges to voter eligibility protect against improper discriminatory allegations made solely to disenfranchise or intimidate voters. Such improper challenges have frequently targeted voters of color, student voters, and voters with disabilities. It is imperative that steps are taken to help ensure that qualified voters are not subjected to such challenges at the polling place or prevented from exercising their fundamental right to vote. This bill will require that adequate protections are in place to help ensure that such allegations are not made without proper proof and documentation. Such protections include requiring any person, other than an election inspector, who challenges the qualifications of a voter at an election to complete, execute and deliver to the board of inspectors a "challenge affidavit" that includes specific identifying information about the affiant (e g., name, residence and business address and employer) as well as a recital of the reasons and facts supporting the affiant's belief that the challenged voter lacks one or more of the legal quali- fications for voting. The bill would also add making a false statement on the challenge affidavit, or destroying a challenge report or chal- lenge affidavit to the list of items that constitute a misdemeanor. These provisions will bolster protections for qualified voters to ensure their fundamental right to vote is preserved. PRIOR EGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2024: S2987 (Kavanagh) election law-REFERRED TO ELECTIONS /A290 (Walker) - referred to 2023: S2987 (Kavanagh) election law-REFERRED TO ELECTIONS /A290 (Walker) - referred to 2022: S2955 (Kavanagh) election law-REFERRED TO ELECTIONS /A4264 (Walk- er) - referred to 2021: S2955 (Kavanagh) election law-REFERRED TO ELECTIONS /A4264 (Walk- er) - referred to 2020: S2310B (Kavanagh) - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS /A3334C (Walker) - referred to election law 2019: S2301E (Kavanagh) - COMMITTED TO RULES /A3334C (Walker) - referred to election law 2018: S9654 (Kavanagh) - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS /A6587 (Walker) - referred to election law 2017: A6587 (Walker) - referred to election law

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