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House Bill 0799




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 799

        By Representative Fischer






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to ballots; amending s.

  3         101.5609, F.S.; requiring the page or series of

  4         pages of a ballot information booklet relating

  5         to presidential races to be separate from all

  6         other candidacies, proposals, public measures,

  7         and propositions; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsections (2) and (3) of section

12  101.5609, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, are amended to

13  read:

14         101.5609  Ballot requirements.--

15         (2)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3),

16  the ballot information shall, as far as practicable, be in the

17  order of arrangement provided for paper ballots.  Ballots for

18  all questions or propositions to be voted on shall be provided

19  in the same manner and shall be arranged on or in the voting

20  device, if necessary, in the places provided for such

21  purposes.

22         (3)  When an electronic voting system utilizes a ballot

23  information booklet for candidates and propositions to be

24  voted upon, such ballot information may be provided with a

25  series of pages distinguished by different colors.  More than

26  one public measure or proposition may be placed on the same

27  page or series of pages.  However, with respect to ballot

28  information on candidates, the category reserved for

29  candidates for President and Vice President must appear on the

30  same page or series of pages, and no other candidate, category

31  of candidates, or proposal, public measure, or proposition may

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 799

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  1  appear on such page or pages.  The supervisor of elections may

  2  complete the ballot information booklet with categories of

  3  candidates out of proper sequence, but only if and to the

  4  extent necessary to segregate the presidential races as

  5  required by this subsection.

  6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect January 1, 1998.

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  9                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      With respect to electronic voting systems that utilize a
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      of pages of the booklet that relate to presidential races
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      public measures, and propositions.
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