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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
SJ 322 Military-overseas ballots; electronic return of voted ballots, report.
Introduced by: Bill DeSteph | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Study; Secretary of Administration; State Board of Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program; report. Requests the Secretary of Administration to oversee and develop a charter and directives for the State Board of Elections to form a working group to study implementation of electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots. In conducting its study, the State Board of Elections with the working group shall study and develop initial instructions and procedures that (i) consider issues related to accessibility, auditability, authentication, verification, and security through encryption, in order to ensure that any process implemented would guarantee the accuracy and integrity of voted military-overseas ballots, and (ii) recommend (a) security measures necessary to reasonably secure the transmission, processing, and storage of voter data from interception and unauthorized access; (b) methods for verifying and authenticating the identity of the voter electronically when registering to vote and when requesting a ballot from and returning a ballot to the voter's jurisdiction; (c) methods for the encryption of voted ballots; and (d) a procedure for security reviews after an election. The study shall focus on implementation of electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots first as a limited pilot program in 2022, and later on a statewide basis.
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HISTORY
- 01/22/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21102039D
- 01/22/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/27/21 Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/21 Senate: Rereferred to Privileges and Elections
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reading waived (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Reading waived (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 17-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
- 03/01/21 House: Left in Privileges and Elections