RULE NO.: RULE TITLE:
1S-2.034 Polling Place Procedures Manual
NOTICE OF CHANGE
Notice is hereby given that the further changes are being made solely to the proposed revised Form DS DE #11, entitled “The Polling Place Procedures Manual”, which is incorporated by reference into the above-referenced rule.
The changes are made in response to comments from the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee and to comments received before and at the public hearing held on January 17, 2006, pursuant to Section 120.525, Florida Statutes. The notice of the January 17, 2006, public hearing was published in Vol. 32, No. 2, December 2, 2006, and Vol. 32, No. 2, January 13, 2006, issues of the Florida Administrative Weekly. The changes are summarized as follows:
(1) The title page is changed to add the word “manual”
(2) On page 5, under the heading “The Voting Process” and item #4, a correction is made as to the applicable process for resolving a discrepancy in a voter’s signatures versus a discrepancy in the photo identification.
(3) On page 3, clarification is made as when the public including the media has access to the polling room.
(4) On page 16, under the heading “Ballot Accounting,” second column, the instructions for ballot accounting on touch screen systems is changed to replace the word “shall” to “should” when reconciling the number of voters with the number of ballots cast.
(5) On page 16, under the heading “Ballot Accounting,” second column, the phrase “the number or voter authority slips” is corrected to read “the number of voter authority slips.”
(6) On page 16, under the heading “Ballot Accounting,” the tallying process is clarified including when voter authority slips may be used for ballot accounting.
(7) It is clarified that all procedures, with limited exceptions, that apply to polling places apply to early voting, with including but not limited to procedures relating to ballot accounting and public access.
(8) The manual is changed throughout as needed to note that signatures may be captured on electronic devices versus precinct registers.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Maria Matthews, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, R.A. Gray Building, 500 S. Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, (850)245-6520
