Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 566
       
       
       
       By Senator Wise
       
       
       
       
       5-00616-12                                             2012566__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to overseas voting; amending s.
    3         101.697, F.S.; requiring that the Department of State
    4         adopt rules to authorize a supervisor of elections to
    5         accept from an overseas voter a request for an
    6         absentee ballot or a voted absentee ballot by secure
    7         electronic mail; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 101.697, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   12  read:
   13         101.697 Electronic transmission of election materials.—The
   14  Department of State shall determine whether secure electronic
   15  means can be established for receiving ballots from overseas
   16  voters. If such security can be established, the department
   17  shall adopt rules to authorize a supervisor of elections to
   18  accept from an overseas voter a request for an absentee ballot
   19  or a voted absentee ballot by secure facsimile machine
   20  transmission, secure electronic mail, or other secure electronic
   21  means. The rules must provide that in order to accept a voted
   22  ballot, the verification of the voter must be established, the
   23  security of the transmission must be established, and each
   24  ballot received must be recorded.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.