File Code: Elections
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Cardin, Bartlett, Bromwell, Cadden, Gilleland, Healey,
Kaiser, King, Marriott, McKee, Morhaim, Myers, and Zirkin
- Entitled:
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Election Law - Voting Systems - Adequate Voter Verification Process
Requiring that voting systems incorporate an adequate voter
verification process that includes specified features; requiring that
each voter's ballot choices, once cast, be preserved in a specified
manner; requiring, in the event of a recount, that local boards of
election use specified records; providing that specified ballots are
official records; requiring the State Board of Elections to conduct a
comparison of ballots in a random sampling of election districts;
requiring the Governor to allocate specified resources; etc.
House Action
- 1/13
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 2/9
- Hearing 2/24 at 2:00 p.m.
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
- 3/26
- Favorable with Amendments
- Committee Amendment Adopted (80-51)
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Motion Special Order until evening session (Delegate Bobo) Rejected (51-76)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/27
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Moe) Rejected
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
- Third Reading Failed (50-81)
Senate Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Jon S. Cardin, District 11
- Delegate Joseph R. Bartlett, District 4A
- Delegate Eric M. Bromwell, District 8
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Terry R. Gilleland, Jr., District 32
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
- Delegate Anne R. Kaiser, District 14
- Delegate Nancy J. King, District 39
- Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Bobby A. Zirkin, District 11
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- APPROPRIATIONS
- BALLOTS
- ELECTIONS SUPERVISORS
- ELECTIONS, STATE BOARD OF
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- GOVERNOR
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- VOTING -see also- BALLOTS; ELECTIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Election Law
- (
1-101 ,
9-106
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
House
- Number: 015467/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 28, 2005 at:
4:15 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 26, 2005: Committee Amendment Adopted (80-51)
- March 26, 2005: Motion Special Order until evening session (Bobo) Rejected (51-76)
- March 27, 2005: Third Reading Failed (50-81)
