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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session
special election boards; voter registration
Purpose
Prohibits special election board members from collecting, processing or otherwise facilitating a voter's registration while acting for, or on behalf of, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections.
Background
A county recorder or other officer in charge of elections may appoint any number of special election boards to facilitate voting for a qualified elector who is confined because of an illness or disability and therefore not able to go to the polls on the day of the election and who does not wish to vote by mailed early ballot. The qualified elector may make a verbal or signed written request to the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections to have a ballot personally delivered to the elector by a special election board at the elector's place of confinement. For a partisan election, each special election board must consist of two members, one from each of the two political parties who cast the highest number of votes in the state in the last preceding general election. For a nonpartisan election, each special election board must consist of two members with different political affiliations. A person who is a candidate for an office in an election is not eligible to serve on a special election board for that election (A.R.S. § 16-549; EPM Ch. 2 (IV)(A)).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Prohibits special election board members from collecting, processing or otherwise facilitating a voter's registration while acting for, or on behalf of, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections.
2. Makes technical changes.
3. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 9, 2026
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