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Florida Senate - 2007 SB 342
By Senator Wilson
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to voting systems; amending s.
3 101.5606, F.S.; requiring that voting systems
4 approved by the Department of State allow the
5 voter to correct an error in voting; requiring
6 that such systems produce a paper record, be
7 furnished with illumination, be equipped with
8 an audio-stimulus voting feature, and include a
9 sip-and-puff switch attachment; providing an
10 effective date.
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12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14 Section 1. Section 101.5606, Florida Statutes, is
15 amended to read:
16 101.5606 Requirements for approval of systems.--No
17 electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be
18 approved by the Department of State unless it is so
19 constructed that:
20 (1) It permits and requires voting in secrecy.
21 (2) It permits each elector to vote at any election
22 for all persons and offices for whom and for which the elector
23 is lawfully entitled to vote, and no others; to vote for as
24 many persons for an office as the elector is entitled to vote
25 for; and to vote for or against any question upon which the
26 elector is entitled to vote.
27 (3) It immediately rejects a ballot where the number
28 of votes for an office or measure exceeds the number which the
29 voter is entitled to cast or where the tabulating equipment
30 reads the ballot as a ballot with no votes cast.
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1 (4) For systems using marksense ballots, it accepts a
2 rejected ballot pursuant to subsection (3) if a voter chooses
3 to cast the ballot, but records no vote for any office that
4 has been overvoted or undervoted.
5 (5) It is capable of correctly counting votes.
6 (6) It permits each voter at a primary election to
7 vote only for the candidates seeking nomination by the
8 political party in which such voter is registered, for any
9 candidate for nonpartisan office, and for any question upon
10 which the voter is entitled to vote.
11 (7) At presidential elections it permits each elector,
12 by one operation, to vote for all presidential electors of a
13 party or for all presidential electors of candidates for
14 President and Vice President with no party affiliation.
15 (8) It provides a method for write-in voting.
16 (9) It is capable of accumulating a count of the
17 specific number of ballots tallied for a precinct,
18 accumulating total votes by candidate for each office, and
19 accumulating total votes for and against each question and
20 issue of the ballots tallied for a precinct.
21 (10) It is capable of tallying votes from ballots of
22 different political parties from the same precinct, in the
23 case of a primary election.
24 (11) It is capable of automatically producing precinct
25 totals in printed, marked, or punched form, or a combination
26 thereof.
27 (12) If it is of a type that which registers votes
28 electronically, it will permit each voter to privately and
29 independently change his or her vote for any candidate or upon
30 any question appearing on the official ballot, or correct any
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1 error, up to the time that the voter takes the final step to
2 register his or her vote and to have the vote computed.
3 (13) It is capable of providing records from which the
4 operation of the voting system may be audited.
5 (14) It uses a precinct-count tabulation system.
6 (15) It does not use an apparatus or device for the
7 piercing of ballots by the voter.
8 (16) It produces and retains a voter-verified
9 permanent paper record having a manual audit capacity that
10 records each vote to be cast and that is viewed by the voter
11 from behind a window or other device before the ballot is
12 cast.
13 (17) It is furnished with illumination sufficient to
14 enable the voter to read the ballot while in the booth.
15 (18) It is equipped with an audio-stimulus voting
16 feature that communicates the complete content of the ballot
17 in a human voice and permits a voter who is blind or visually
18 impaired to cast a secret ballot using, at the option of the
19 voter, voice-only or tactile-discernible controls.
20 (19) It includes a sip-and-puff switch voting
21 attachment.
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2008.
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25 SENATE SUMMARY
26 Revises the requirements for voting systems approved by
the Department of State. Requires that a voter be allowed
27 to correct an error in voting. Requires that the system
produce a paper record, be furnished with illumination,
28 be equipped with an audio-stimulus voting feature, and
include a sip-and-puff switch attachment.
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