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1		-	~~Senate Engrossed~~ watermark; paper ballots State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 ~~SENATE BILL~~ 1123 AN ACT Repealing section 16-504, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 16, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding a new section 16-504; relating to election ballots. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
	1	+	REFERENCE TITLE: watermark; paper ballots State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 SB 1123 Introduced by Senators Finchem: Angius, Dunn, Kavanagh, Leach, Payne, Rogers, Shamp AN ACT Repealing section 16-504, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 16, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding a new section 16-504; relating to election ballots. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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59	68		Repealing section 16-504, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 16, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding a new section 16-504; relating to election ballots.
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69	78		Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Repeal Section 16-504, Arizona Revised Statutes, is repealed. Sec. 2. Title 16, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section 16-504, to read: START_STATUTE16-504. Antifraud ballot paper; vendor certification; antifraud measures Notwithstanding any other statute, any vendor that provides fraud countermeasures that are contained in and on the paper used for ballots shall be ISO 27001 certified, ISO 17025 certified or ISO 9001:2015 certified. Ballot fraud countermeasures shall include the use of at least three of the following: 1. Unique, controlled-supply watermarked clearing bank specification 1 security paper. 2. Secure holographic foil that acts as a visual deterrent and anti-copy feature. 3. Branded overprint of any hologram that personalizes the hologram with customer logo. 4. Custom complex security background designs with banknote-level security. 5. Secure variable digital infill. 6. Thermochromic, tri-thermochromic, photochromic or optically variable inks. 7. Stealth numbering in ultraviolet, infrared or taggant inks. 8. Multicolored micro-numismatic invisible ultraviolet designs. 9. Unique forensic fraud detection technology that is built into security inks. 10. Unique bar code or QR code that is accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter's ballot as it is processed. END_STATUTE
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71	80		Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
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75	84		Section 16-504, Arizona Revised Statutes, is repealed.
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77	86		Sec. 2. Title 16, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section 16-504, to read:
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81	90		Notwithstanding any other statute, any vendor that provides fraud countermeasures that are contained in and on the paper used for ballots shall be ISO 27001 certified, ISO 17025 certified or ISO 9001:2015 certified. Ballot fraud countermeasures shall include the use of at least three of the following:
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101	110		10. Unique bar code or QR code that is accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter's ballot as it is processed. END_STATUTE