| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to voting systems; amending s. 101.5606, |
| 3 | F.S.; providing an additional requirement for Department |
| 4 | of State approval of certain voting systems; requiring |
| 5 | production of a paper record meeting specified criteria; |
| 6 | requiring preservation of and access to such a record; |
| 7 | providing for use of such record in a recount of certain |
| 8 | elections; providing an effective date. |
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| 10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 12 | Section 1. Subsection (16) is added to section 101.5606, |
| 13 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 14 | 101.5606 Requirements for approval of systems.--No |
| 15 | electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be approved |
| 16 | by the Department of State unless it is so constructed that: |
| 17 | (16) It produces a voter-verifiable paper record that is |
| 18 | suitable for a manual audit and is equivalent or superior to the |
| 19 | paper record of a paper ballot box system such that the voting |
| 20 | system, at minimum: |
| 21 | (a) Produces a permanent paper record, each individual |
| 22 | paper record of which is made available for inspection and |
| 23 | verification by the voter at the time the vote is cast and |
| 24 | preserved within the polling place in the manner in which all |
| 25 | other paper ballots are preserved within the polling place on |
| 26 | election day for later use in any manual audit. |
| 27 | (b) Provides the voter with an opportunity to correct any |
| 28 | error made by the system before the permanent record is |
| 29 | preserved for use in any manual audit. The voter-verified paper |
| 30 | record produced under this subsection shall be available as an |
| 31 | official record pursuant to chapter 119 and shall be the |
| 32 | official record used for any recount conducted with respect to |
| 33 | any election in which the system is used. |
| 34 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007. |