Senate Bill sb1910

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1910

    By Senator Smith





    14-1494-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the approval of electronic

  3         or electromechanical voting systems; amending

  4         s. 101.5606, F.S.; requiring that before an

  5         electronic or electromechanical voting system

  6         may be approved for use by the Department of

  7         State, the system must produce an individual,

  8         discrete, and permanent paper ballot or paper

  9         record of the ballot cast by the voter and

10         preserve the paper ballot or paper record as an

11         official record available for use in any

12         recount; requiring that the permanent paper

13         ballot or paper record be used by the state or

14         its contractor to check the accuracy of a

15         machine count or the count itself and be used

16         in a recount proceeding; providing that in any

17         case of a discrepancy, the voter's permanent

18         paper ballot or paper record is the true and

19         correct record of the voter's choices; provides

20         an effective date.

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

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24         Section 1.  Present subsections (13), (14), and (15) of

25  section 101.5606, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as

26  subsections (14), (15), and (16), respectively, and a new

27  subsection (13) is added to that section, to read:

28         101.5606  Requirements for approval of systems.--No

29  electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be

30  approved by the Department of State unless it is so

31  constructed that:

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1910
    14-1494-06




 1         (13)  It produces an individual, discrete, and

 2  permanent paper ballot or paper record of the ballot cast by

 3  the voter, and preserves the paper ballot or paper record as

 4  an official record available for use in any recount. The

 5  permanent paper ballot or paper record shall be used by the

 6  state or its contractor to check the accuracy of a machine

 7  count or the count itself, shall a recount be used in

 8  proceeding, and, in case of a discrepancy, the permanent paper

 9  ballot or paper record shall be considered the true and

10  correct record of the voter's choices.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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14                          SENATE SUMMARY

15    Requires that before an electronic or electromechanical
      voting system may be approved for use by the Department
16    of State, the system must produce an individual,
      discrete, and permanent paper ballot or paper record of
17    the ballot cast by the voter, and preserve the paper
      ballot or paper record as an official record available
18    for use in any recount. Requires that the permanent paper
      ballot or paper record be used by the state or its
19    contractor to check the accuracy of a machine count or
      the count itself and be used in a recount proceeding.
20    Provides that in any case of a discrepancy, the voter's
      permanent paper ballot or paper record is the true and
21    correct record of the voter's choices.

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