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2001 SESSION

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SJ 363 Study; election process and voting technologies.

Introduced by: Kevin G. Miller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Study; Election process and voting technologies. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study Virginia's election process and voting technologies. In conducting the study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) examine the reliability and performance of the various types of voting systems in use throughout Virginia and in other states; (ii) examine the feasibility, advisability and costs of standardizing voting systems throughout the Commonwealth; (iii) consider ways to encourage localities to purchase or phase-in upgraded voting systems, including match grant programs; (iv) examine new and developing technologies that might advance the goals of better determining vote eligibility, ensuring voter privacy, enhancing the ability of voters to cast accurate and legal ballots and reducing the potential for election officials and individual interests to seek to interpret the intent of voters from ballots cast; (v) establish the extent to which, and the circumstances under which, spoiled ballots are cast or rescinded in elections; (vi) collect information regarding possible or actual voter misunderstanding of the ballot in elections throughout the Commonwealth; (vii) solicit the advice and experience of local electoral boards in ascertaining, establishing, and certifying the results of elections for accuracy and fairness; (viii) investigate the extent of and legality of vote-swapping strategies; (ix) examine local electoral board membership and qualification; (x) consider procedures for voter-friendly registration; (xi) examine standard procedures for assisting voters at the polls; (xii) ascertain the training needs of election officials and monitor the study by the State Board of Elections and the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service on establishing a career development program for voter registrars; (xiii) consider procedures for standardizing absentee voting; (xiv) examine legal, technological, logistical and other related issues, including privacy involved in the handling and security of a merged pollbook; (xv) investigate the experience of, and monitor current actions in, other states; and (xvi) make any other recommendations for changes that may be desirable to advance the certainty of, and fairness in establishing, the outcome of elections in the Commonwealth. The study shall include, but not be limited to, the development of secure systems to facilitate voting and other procedures involved in the voter registration and voting process and shall examine new advances such as biometrics, passcodes, and other appropriate devices. The joint subcommittee must submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the 2002 Session of the General Assembly. This resolution is identical to HJR 681 (2001), and incorporates Senators Lambert [SJR 376] and Rerras [SJR 352] and Delegates Crittenden [HJR 798], Drake [HJR 621], Landes [HJR 659], Marshall [HJR 529], O'Brien [HJR 681], Putney [HJR 606], and Williams [HJR 575].


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