The Voting and Election Bills

We are profiling a series of bills grouped together by subject matter over the next several days. The groupings are as follows: • Voting and Election Bills • Immigration Bills • Constitutional Amendments • School Board Bills • Republican Bills • Gun Safety Bills • Discrimination Bills • Criminal Justice Bills • Housing Bills • Gavin’s Law and Braden’s Law

First up, the Voting and Election Bills.

Senate Bill 2S, sponsored by Senator Darius Brown and Rep. Bill Bush, Rep. Debra Heffernan and Rep. Claire Snyder-Hall, would eliminate the limitations on absentee voting and allow anyone to vote by absentee ballot without an excuse.

This bill is a first leg of a constitutional amendment to specifically authorize early, in-person voting for the general election, a primary ele