Senate Bill sb2644

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2644

    By Senator Klein





    30-1441-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to voting systems; amending s.

  3         101.5606, F.S.; revising a requirement and

  4         providing additional requirements for voting

  5         systems that may be approved by the Department

  6         of State; providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Section 101.5606, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         101.5606  Requirements for approval of systems.--No

13  electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be

14  approved by the Department of State unless it is so

15  constructed that:

16         (1)  It permits and requires voting in secrecy.

17         (2)  It permits each elector to vote at any election

18  for all persons and offices for whom and for which the elector

19  is lawfully entitled to vote, and no others; to vote for as

20  many persons for an office as the elector is entitled to vote

21  for; and to vote for or against any question upon which the

22  elector is entitled to vote.

23         (3)  It immediately rejects a ballot where the number

24  of votes for an office or measure exceeds the number which the

25  voter is entitled to cast or where the tabulating equipment

26  reads the ballot as a ballot with no votes cast.

27         (4)  For systems using marksense ballots, it accepts a

28  rejected ballot pursuant to subsection (3) if a voter chooses

29  to cast the ballot, but records no vote for any office that

30  has been overvoted or undervoted.

31         (5)  It is capable of correctly counting votes.

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 1         (6)  It permits each voter at a primary election to

 2  vote only for the candidates seeking nomination by the

 3  political party in which such voter is registered, for any

 4  candidate for nonpartisan office, and for any question upon

 5  which the voter is entitled to vote.

 6         (7)  At presidential elections it permits each elector,

 7  by one operation, to vote for all presidential electors of a

 8  party or for all presidential electors of candidates for

 9  President and Vice President with no party affiliation.

10         (8)  It provides a method for write-in voting.

11         (9)  It is capable of accumulating a count of the

12  specific number of ballots tallied for a precinct,

13  accumulating total votes by candidate for each office, and

14  accumulating total votes for and against each question and

15  issue of the ballots tallied for a precinct.

16         (10)  It is capable of tallying votes from ballots of

17  different political parties from the same precinct, in the

18  case of a primary election.

19         (11)  It is capable of automatically producing precinct

20  totals in printed, marked, or punched form, or a combination

21  thereof.

22         (12)  If it is of a type that which registers votes

23  electronically, it will permit each voter to privately and

24  independently change his or her vote for any candidate or upon

25  any question appearing on the official ballot, or correct any

26  error, up to the time that the voter takes the final step to

27  register his or her vote and to have the vote computed.

28         (13)  It is capable of providing records from which the

29  operation of the voting system may be audited.

30         (14)  It uses a precinct-count tabulation system.

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 1         (15)  It does not use an apparatus or device for the

 2  piercing of ballots by the voter.

 3         (16)  It produces and retains a paper record of each

 4  electronically generated ballot which can be reviewed and

 5  corrected by the voter before he or she casts the ballot. The

 6  paper ballot must be retained and used as the official record

 7  of the votes cast if there is a recount of the ballots in an

 8  election.

 9         (17)  It is furnished with illumination sufficient to

10  enable the voter while in the booth to read the ballot.

11         (18)  It includes a sip and puff switch voting

12  attachment.

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

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