WATCH/READ: House Approves Grijalva Amendment Requiring Election Day Drop-Off Of Early Ballots

Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-CD3) successfully amended the Democrats’ election reform bill this afternoon, to require states to permit voters to drop off early ballots to a polling place on election day. If HR1 was approved by both Houses and signed by the President, it would halt Arizona Republicans’ efforts to end E-Day ballot drop-offs.

Republicans in the House did not oppose Grijalva’s amendment, after asking if it had anything to do with ballot harvesting. Grijalva assured him that it did not.

Arizona’s pending SB1146 would eliminate Election Day drop-offs, partly as a reaction to the unusually suspensful post-Election Day counts this past November.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated yesterday that he would not permit HR1 to reach the Senate Floor if/when it passes the House.

Here is the text of the Amendment that passed by a voice vote:

Page 142, insert after line 3 the following (and redesignated

the succeeding provisions accordingly):

“(g) Permitting Voters to Return Ballot to Polling Place on

Date of Election.–The State shall permit an individual to whom

a ballot in an election was provided under this section to cast

the ballot on the date of election by delivering the ballot on

that date to a polling place.”

Video of the discussion can be found here.