HB0050

Prohibits persons from delivering ballots of other electors to the county clerk, with limited exceptions for immediate family and residential care facility employees, and makes violations a felony offense.

• Restricts ballot delivery to the county clerk to the qualified elector themselves, their immediate family, or authorized residential care facility employees. Mailed ballots are not subject to this restriction. (W.S. 22-9-113(b))
• Allows employees of residential care facilities (nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult family homes, community-based residential facilities) and bona fide caregivers to deliver absentee ballots for not more than five qualified electors per election residing in that facility. (W.S. 22-9-113(c))
• Requires residential care facility employees delivering ballots on behalf of others to file an affidavit with the county clerk under penalty of perjury, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, attesting they are authorized to deliver the ballot. (W.S. 22-9-113(c))
• Requires county clerks to transmit copies of all affidavits filed under the residential care facility employee ballot delivery provision to the secretary of state within 30 days following each election. (W.S. 22-9-113(c))
• Provides that ballots delivered in violation of the ballot delivery restrictions shall not be tabulated if the violation is discovered before tabulation, and requires the county clerk to attempt to notify the affected elector. (W.S. 22-9-113(d))
• Makes knowingly and willfully violating the ballot delivery restrictions a felony offense punishable by not more than five years' imprisonment in the state penitentiary or a fine of not more than $10,000, or both. (W.S. 22-26-101(a)(xii))

Effective: Upon completion of all acts necessary for the bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution

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