HOUSE BILL 8

Sponsored By:

Delegate Montgomery

Entitled:

Election Law - Voting Systems - Verification and Accessibility

Synopsis:

Requiring that any voting system that does not use a document ballot produce an accessible voter-verified paper audit trail of a voter's ballot choices and provide the voter with an opportunity to inspect the accessible voter-verified paper audit trail; requiring that the accessible voter-verified paper audit trails be preserved at the polling place in a manner similar to document ballots so that the accessible voter-verified paper audit trails may later be used in a manual recount if necessary; etc.

History by Legislative Date

House Action

7/20

Pre-filed

1/11

First Reading Ways and Means

1/25

Hearing 2/1 at 2:00 p.m.

3/6

Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means

Senate Action

No Action

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

APPROPRIATIONS

BALLOTS

BLIND PERSONS

DISABILITIES -see also- BLIND; DEAF; DEVELOPMENTAL

ELECTIONS, STATE BOARD OF

EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT

LANGUAGE

RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS

RULES AND REGULATIONS

VOTING -see also- BALLOTS; ELECTIONS

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Election Law

( 1-101 , 9-106 , 9-107 )

Documents:

Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format): First Reading, Third Reading, Enrolled

Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format): Available

Amendments: None offered