Senate Bill sb2720
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Florida Senate - 2006 SB 2720
By Senator Klein
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to voting systems; amending s.
3 101.5606, F.S.; providing additional criteria
4 governing approval of certain voting systems by
5 the Department of State; requiring that a
6 system produce a paper record meeting specified
7 criteria; providing for preservation of and
8 access to such a record; providing for use of
9 such record in a recount of certain elections;
10 prohibiting a system that contains or uses
11 software or a source code that is not disclosed
12 to the department; providing for inspection of
13 a disclosed source code by a citizen;
14 prohibiting a system that contains a wireless
15 communication device; prohibiting a system that
16 contains or uses software or hardware that is
17 not certified to meet specified criteria;
18 providing for accreditation by the department
19 of a laboratory that may issue such
20 certification; providing 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. Subsections (16), (17), (18), and (19) are
25 added to section 101.5606, Florida Statutes, to read:
26 101.5606 Requirements for approval of systems.--No
27 electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be
28 approved by the Department of State unless it is so
29 constructed that:
30 (16) It produces a voter-verifiable paper record that
31 is suitable for a manual audit and is equivalent or superior
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1 to the paper record of a paper ballot box system such that the
2 voting system, at minimum:
3 (a) Produces a permanent paper record, each individual
4 paper record of which is made available for inspection and
5 verification by the voter at the time the vote is cast and
6 preserved within the polling place in the manner in which all
7 other paper ballots are preserved within the polling place on
8 election day for later use in any manual audit.
9 (b) Provides the voter with an opportunity to correct
10 any error made by the system before the permanent record is
11 preserved for use in any manual audit. The voter-verified
12 paper record produced under this subsection shall be available
13 as an official record pursuant to chapter 119, and shall be
14 the official record used for any recount conducted with
15 respect to any election in which the system is used.
16 (17) It contains or uses only software whose presence
17 and source code has been disclosed to the department. The
18 department shall make such disclosed source code available for
19 inspection by any citizen upon request.
20 (18) It does not contain any wireless communication
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22 (19) It contains or uses only software and hardware
23 that is certified by laboratories accredited by the department
24 as meeting the requirements of subsections (17) and (18).
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.
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2 SENATE SUMMARY
3 Provides additional criteria governing approval of voting
systems by the Department of State. Requires a paper
4 record meeting specified criteria. Provides for
preservation and access to such record and use of such
5 record in a recount. Prohibits a voting system with
undisclosed software or a wireless communication device.
6 Requires disclosure of software codes and provides for
access to disclosed codes. Requires certification of
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