AB179-ASA1,1,5 1An Act to renumber and amend 6.875 (4) (b); to amend 6.875 (6) (a), 6.875 (6)
2(c) 2., 6.875 (7), 7.315 (1) (a) and 12.60 (1) (a); and to create 6.875 (4) (b) 2., 6.875
3(6) (f), 6.875 (8) and 12.13 (3m) of the statutes; relating to: absentee voting in
4certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and providing a
5penalty.

Under current law, a municipal clerk is required, under certain circumstances,
to dispatch special voting deputies to a residential care facility or qualified
retirement home so that the occupants of the facility or home may cast an absentee
ballot in person with the special voting deputies rather than vote in person at the
appropriate polling place or request and complete an absentee ballot by mail. Under
current law, a retirement home is a facility occupied as a primary residence by 10 or
more unrelated individuals. A qualified retirement home is a retirement home that
has a significant number of occupants who lack adequate transportation to the
polling place, need assistance in voting, are aged 60 or over, or are indefinitely
confined.