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HB 1053 Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record.

Introduced by: Mark H. Levine | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record. Requires any electronic voting system approved by the State Board of Elections to retain each printed ballot cast. Printed ballots are currently defined to include machine-readable ballots, and the bill amends the definition of a machine-readable ballot to mean a tangible ballot that is marked by a voter or by a system or device operated by voter, is available for verification by the voter at the time the ballot is cast, and is then fed into and scanned by a separate counting machine. The bill amends the requirements for sealing and delivering ballots after an election to include printed ballots; current law only addresses paper ballots.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record. Requires any electronic voting system approved by the State Board of Elections to retain each paper ballot cast or to produce a voter-verifiable paper record of each ballot cast that is available for inspection and verification by the voter at the time the ballot is cast. The bill defines "voter-verifiable paper record" as a tangible record of the ballot cast by the voter that is printed on paper and is physically separate from any other similar document. For purposes of sealing and delivering to clerks of the circuit courts and retention by the clerks, such paper records are treated in the same manner as counted ballots.