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| 4 | 4 | SENATE BILL 567 | |
| 5 | 5 | By Pody | |
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| 8 | 8 | SB0567 | |
| 9 | 9 | 001926 | |
| 10 | 10 | - 1 - | |
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| 12 | 12 | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, | |
| 13 | 13 | relative to inspection of election documents. | |
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| 15 | 15 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: | |
| 16 | 16 | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-8-108, is amended by adding the | |
| 17 | 17 | following new subsections: | |
| 18 | 18 | (c) Each county election commission shall make election records available not | |
| 19 | 19 | later than the fifteenth day after election day in an electronic format for a fee of no more | |
| 20 | 20 | than fifty dollars ($50.00). | |
| 21 | 21 | (d) Beginning on the first day after the date the final certification of an election is | |
| 22 | 22 | completed, each county election commission shall make available for public inspection | |
| 23 | 23 | election records that are: | |
| 24 | 24 | (1) Images of voted ballots, if a county maintains images of voted ballots; | |
| 25 | 25 | or | |
| 26 | 26 | (2) Cast vote records. | |
| 27 | 27 | (e) Beginning on the sixty-first day after an election, each county election | |
| 28 | 28 | commission shall make available for public inspection records that are original voted | |
| 29 | 29 | ballots. The coordinator of elections shall adopt procedures to ensure the redaction of | |
| 30 | 30 | any personally identifiable information of the voter contained on a ballot before marking | |
| 31 | 31 | the voted ballot available for public inspection. | |
| 32 | 32 | (f) A person making a request pursuant to subsections (c)-(e) may observe the | |
| 33 | 33 | scanning and related handling process, but shall not touch or handle a physical ballot. | |
| 34 | 34 | SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. |