| 1 | 1 | | By: Pena H.B. No. 112 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the use of direct recording electronic voting machines. |
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| 7 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Chapter 129, Election Code, is amended by adding |
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| 9 | 9 | | Section 129.002 to read as follows: |
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| 10 | 10 | | Sec. 129.002. PAPER AUDIT TRAIL REQUIRED. (a) A voting |
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| 11 | 11 | | system that consists of direct recording electronic voting machines |
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| 12 | 12 | | may not be used in an election unless the system: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (1) has: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (A) been certified or otherwise approved by means |
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| 15 | 15 | | of qualification testing by a nationally recognized test |
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| 16 | 16 | | laboratory; and |
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| 17 | 17 | | (B) met or exceeded the minimum requirements |
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| 18 | 18 | | contained in "Performance and Test Standards for Punch Card, Mark |
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| 19 | 19 | | Sense, and Direct Recording Electronic Voting Systems" or a |
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| 20 | 20 | | successor voluntary standards document developed and adopted by the |
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| 21 | 21 | | Federal Election Commission, the Election Assistance Commission, |
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| 22 | 22 | | or the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) creates a contemporaneous auditable paper record |
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| 24 | 24 | | copy of each electronic ballot that allows a voter to confirm the |
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| 25 | 25 | | choices the voter made through both a visual and a nonvisual method, |
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| 26 | 26 | | such as through an audio component, before the voter casts the |
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| 27 | 27 | | ballot. |
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| 28 | 28 | | (b) The paper record copy must list the contests on the |
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| 29 | 29 | | ballot and the voter's choices in those contests. The paper record |
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| 30 | 30 | | copy is not a ballot. |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2008. |
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