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GSGL 19 Election nay Registration and Administrative improvements (B) <br />The League supports voter registration prior to election day and encuurages <br />,_......,,..Ea �,,rranr nvsrem of voter registration. _ .. <br />The following steps would improve the current system: <br />1. Election day registration and voting should be permitted, but not <br />mandated, to take place in adjacent roams. <br />2. Require public entities to make available facilities for polling places. <br />3. Certain penalties for election day infractions are so severe that they <br />constitute a barrier to effective enforcement of the law. The League recommends <br />that the laws he reviewed and modified where necessary so that the laws can be <br />effectively enforced. <br />4. The League encourages the promotion of pre -election day registration <br />through the media and all. other available means. <br />5. Permitting election judges to sign ballots prior to sending out absentee <br />ballots. <br />6. Write-in candidates with less than five percent of tha total vote cast <br />would need not be listed on election returns. <br />7. Require the use of county registration systems at school district <br />elections when held in conjunction with state or municipal elections ;.nd to <br />follow state and municipal election laws. <br />GSGL-20 Optional Poll Hours (C) <br />1 <br />Prior to 1983, cities under 1.000 population locate, outside the <br />metropolitan area could by Tesolution fix the poll hours no Later than 9:00 a.m. <br />for a state general election and no later than 5:00 p.m. for a state primary. <br />This flexibility would reduce costs to very small cities. <br />The Lengue also supports legislation for municipalities to set their <br />polling hours by referendum. <br />-26- <br />