As House Bill 1355 made its way through the Legislature, critics railed against provisions that would impose new regulations on groups that register voters, reduce the number of days of early voting and require voters who move between counties to vote by provisional ballot. # But after the bill was signed, new threads of controversy, as well as a pair of court challenges, have touched on the way elections officials have interpreted a less-contested procedural provision: its effective date, which for many of its sections (including some of the most controversial) was the moment it was signed into law by Gov.