Changes to Existing Law

The clerk of courts shall, within fifteen days after the close of each month, prepare and deliver to the auditor an abstract from the records of the names of persons declared mentally incompetent in the preceding month. The notice clerk of courts shall be sent send the name to the county auditor of the county in which the person declared incompetent resides. Within fifteen days after the close of each month, the county coroner shall prepare and deliver an abstract from the records of the names of persons declared deceased in the preceding month to the auditor of the county in which the decedent resided. The county auditor shall remove from the master registration list the: (1) The names of persons identified as mentally incompetent in accordance with the information provided pursuant to this section; and (2) The names of those sentenced to imprisonment in the federal penitentiary system; and may remove (3) The names published in an obituary or identified as deceased by the county coroner, in accordance with the information provided pursuant to this section. Voter registration records maintained in or transmitted to the statewide voter registration file shall must be matched with the death records maintained as vital statistics records by the Department of Health and the records of felony convictions maintained by the Unified Judicial System. Any voter identified as deceased or who is serving a sentence for a felony conviction shall must be removed from the voter registration records. The State Board of Elections may promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, determining how voter registration records shall be matched.

26 12-4-19. AnyA county auditor shall send a nonforwardable, return-if-undeliverable address verification request to any voter in the active registration file who has failed to vote, has not updated the voter's registration information, and has not replied to a confirmation mailing at least once during the last preceding four consecutive years yearshall be sent a nonforwardable return-if-undeliverable address verification request. If the request is undeliverable, then the auditor shall send a confirmation mailing prescribed by the State Board of Elections shall be sent. If a county the auditor has determined through a national change of address licensee of the United States Postal Service that the address of a voter who is to be sent an address verification request has changed, the confirmation mailing may be omitted. This process shall must be performed by each county auditor from January first to November fifteenth, inclusive, of each odd-numbered year six months prior to an election.

If a voter placed in the inactive registration file does not vote by in the second general election following the confirmation mailing, the registration shall must be canceled. This determination shall be made between January first and November fifteenth of every odd-numbered year within six months of the general election.

TheA county auditor shall send a national change of address notice shall be sent by forwarding service requested to each voter in the active registration file who has failed to vote, has not updated the voter's registration information, has not replied to a confirmation mailing at least once during the last preceding four consecutive years year, and has had a national change of address within the jurisdiction with the United States Post Office. This process shall must be performed by each county auditor from January first to November fifteenth, inclusive, of each odd-numbered year six months prior to an election. 26