On behalf of the R Street Institute, we respectfully request you support HB2277. I have attached the long form testimony for your consideration.

Please vote “No” on this bill. To require certification of election results as a ministerial duty would conflict with and undermine an electoral board member’s legal duty to ensure compliance with election laws prior to any certification. Electoral board members are sworn and entrusted with ensuring fair and honest elections. Converting the certification process into merely a ministerial duty would have the potential to render any anomalies discovered by election officers or electoral boards or their staff meaningless.