ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session
	Senate: GOV DP 5-3-0-0 | 3^rd Read 16-14-0-0 House: GE DP 8-5-0-0

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SB 1793: voter registration databases; death records

Sponsor:  Senator Gowan, LD  14

House Engrossed

Overview

Makes various requirements regarding the transmission of death records and ballot fraud measures that must be used for paper ballots.

History

Each month the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) is required to transmit, without charge, a record of the death of every resident of this state within the preceding month to the SOS.  The SOS must use the record for the sole purpose of canceling the names of deceased people from the statewide voter registration database.  Additionally, DHS must annually provide, without charge, to the SOS a record of all deaths of residents of this state from the statewide electronic death registration system.  The SOS is then authorized to compare the records of deaths with the statewide voter registration database (A.R.S. § 16-165).

The director of DHS is the state registrar of vital records.  Current statute outlines the various duties of the state registrar of vital records which includes transmitting, each month, to the county recorder a record of the death of each resident of the county recorder's county who is at least 16 years of age (A.R.S. § 36-302).

Provisions

1. Requires DHS to additionally transmit to each county recorder, without charge, a record of the death of every resident of that county recorder's county within the preceding month that is reported to DHS. (Sec. 1)

2. Specifies that the SOS and the county recorder must use the death records solely for the purpose of canceling the names of deceased people from the state and county voter registration databases. (Sec. 1)

3. Instructs county recorders to compare the death records with the county voter registration database. (Sec. 1)

4. Requires any vendor that provides fraud countermeasures that are contained in and on the paper used for ballots to be ISO 27001 certified, ISO 17025 certified or ISO 9001:2015 certified. (Sec. 2)

5. Stipulates that ballot fraud measures must include the use of at least three of the following:

a) Unique, controlled-supply watermarked clearing bank specification 1 security paper;

b) Secure holographic foil that acts as a visual deterrent and anti-copy feature;

c) Branded overprint of any hologram that personalizes the hologram with customer logo;

d) Custom complex security background designs with banknote-level security;

e) Secure variable digital infill;

f) Thermochromic, tri-thermochromic, photochromic or optically variable inks;

g) Stealth numbering in ultraviolet, infrared or taggant inks;

h) Multicolored micro-numismatic invisible ultraviolet designs;

i) Unique forensic fraud detection technology that is built into security inks; or

j) Unique bar code or QR code that is accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter's ballot as it is processed. (Sec. 2)

6. Requires the state registrar of vital records to additionally transmit a record of the death of each resident to the SOS. (Sec. 3)

7. Directs the state registrar of vital records to annually transmit an end of year compilation of the records of deaths to the SOS and the county recorder. (Sec. 3)

8. Appropriates $1 million from the state General Fund in fiscal year 2022 to the Arizona Department of Administration in order to reimburse counties for the costs of purchasing antifraud ballot paper and equipment.

a) Specifies that the appropriation is exempt from statute relating to the lapsing of appropriations. (Sec. 4)

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