New election bill would eliminate three-day voting grace period with offset

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Senate and House negotiators reached a deal on a new elections bill that would end the three-day grace period for mail-in ballots but offsets it at the front end with two more days of voting.

A House-Senate conference committee agreed to a bill allowing voters to start casting ballots 22 days before the election while bringing an end to a law allowing ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be accepted for three days after the election.

The bill also moves up the deadline for requesting an advanced ballot by a week. The deadline for requesting . . .

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