As House Bill 1355 made its way through the Legislature, critics railed against provisions that would impose new regulations on groups that register voters, reduce the number of days of early voting and require voters who move between counties to vote by provisional ballot. # But after the bill was signed, new threads of controversy, as well as a pair of court challenges, have touched on the way elections officials have interpreted a less-contested procedural provision: its effective date, which for many of its sections (including some of the most controversial) was the moment it was signed into law by Gov.
“„SUMMARY OF THE RULE: This emergency rule implements the statutory requirement for registration in an electronic format, adopts forms for use by organizations and supervisors of elections to account for an organization’s voter registration applications, and removes now outdated language from existing Rule 1S-2.042. The emergency rule is necessary to ensure that third-party voter registration organizations and supervisors of elections are able to comply with a law that became effective on the Governor signing it into law. #