Florida Senate - 2007 SB 2242 By Senator Ring 32-531-07 See HB 43 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to voting systems; amending s. 3 101.5606, F.S.; providing an additional 4 requirement for Department of State approval of 5 certain voting systems; requiring production of 6 a paper record meeting specified criteria; 7 requiring preservation of and access to such a 8 record; providing for use of such record in a 9 recount of certain elections; providing an 10 effective date. 11 12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 13 14 Section 1. Subsection (16) is added to section 15 101.5606, Florida Statutes, to read: 16 101.5606 Requirements for approval of systems.--No 17 electronic or electromechanical voting system shall be 18 approved by the Department of State unless it is so 19 constructed that: 20 (16) It produces a voter-verifiable paper record that 21 is suitable for a manual audit and is equivalent or superior 22 to the paper record of a paper ballot box system such that the 23 voting system, at minimum: 24 (a) Produces a permanent paper record, each individual 25 paper record of which is made available for inspection and 26 verification by the voter at the time the vote is cast and 27 preserved within the polling place in the manner in which all 28 other paper ballots are preserved within the polling place on 29 election day for later use in any manual audit. 30 (b) Provides the voter with an opportunity to correct 31 any error made by the system before the permanent record is 1 CODING: Wordsstrickenare deletions; words underlined are additions.
Florida Senate - 2007 SB 2242 32-531-07 See HB 43 1 preserved for use in any manual audit. The voter-verified 2 paper record produced under this subsection shall be available 3 as an official record pursuant to chapter 119 and shall be the 4 official record used for any recount conducted with respect to 5 any election in which the system is used. 6 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 CODING: Wordsstrickenare deletions; words underlined are additions.