Amendment ID: S2264-3

Amendment 3

Ballot Efficiencies

Mr. Kennedy moves to amend the amendment by inserting, after section __, the following new section:-

“SECTION __. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the state primaries scheduled for September 9, 2014 and the state election scheduled for November 4, 2014, the state secretary may, as the state secretary considers necessary for the orderly administration of these elections, prepare or contract to prepare separate bilingual translated and transliterated ballots including all offices and questions to be presented to voters where state or federal law so requires, including printing regional school district offices and candidates on separate ballots or in a different ballot order than set by current law.  Further the state secretary may, for the orderly administration of these elections, forgo any review period or request for substitution of transliterated names.”