BILL NUMBER: AB 877	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bocanegra

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section  19251   19271 
of the Elections Code, relating to voting systems.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 877, as amended, Bocanegra. Direct recording electronic voting
systems.
   Existing law prohibits the Secretary of State from approving, and
prohibits a city or county from contracting for or purchasing, a
direct recording electronic voting system, defined as a voting system
that records a vote electronically and does not require or permit
the voter to record his or her vote directly onto a tangible ballot.
Existing law defines the term "voter verified paper audit trail" as a
component of a direct recording electronic voting system that prints
a contemporaneous paper record copy of each electronic ballot and
allows each voter to confirm his or her selections before the voter
casts his or her ballot.
   This bill would revise the definition of "voter verified paper
audit trail" to instead mean a component of a direct recording
electronic voting system that prints a synchronous paper record
facsimile of each electronic ballot and allows each voter to confirm
his or her selections before the voter casts his or her ballot.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Se   ction 19271 of the 
 Elections Code   , as amended by Section 67 of Chapter
602 of the Statutes of 2013, is amended to read: 
   19271.  As used in this article:
   (a) "Accessible" means that the information provided on the paper
record copy from the voter verified paper audit trail mechanism is
provided or conveyed to voters via both a visual and a nonvisual
method, such as through an audio component.
   (b) "Direct recording electronic voting system" means a voting
system that records a vote electronically and does not require or
permit the voter to record his or her vote directly onto a tangible
ballot.
   (c) "Voter verified paper audit trail" means a component of a
direct recording electronic voting system that prints a 
contemporaneous   synchronous  paper record
 copy   facsimile  of each electronic
ballot and allows each voter to confirm his or her selections before
the voter casts his or her ballot.
   (d) "Federal qualification" means the system has been certified,
if applicable, by means of qualification testing by a nationally
recognized test laboratory and has met or exceeded the minimum
requirements set forth in the Performance and Text Standards for
Punch Card, Mark Sense, and Direct Recording Electronic Voting
Systems, or in any successor voluntary standard document, developed
and promulgated by the Federal Election Commission, the Election
Assistance Commission, or the National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
   (e) "Paper record copy" means an auditable document printed by a
voter verified paper audit trail component that corresponds to the
voter's electronic vote and lists the contests on the ballot and the
voter's selections for those contests. A paper record copy is not a
ballot.
   (f) "Parallel monitoring" means the testing of a randomly selected
sampling of voting equipment on election day designed to simulate
actual election conditions to confirm that the system is registering
votes accurately. 
  SECTION 1.    Section 19251 of the Elections Code
is amended to read:
   19251.  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (a) "Accessible" means that the information provided on the paper
record copy from the voter verified paper audit trail mechanism is
provided or conveyed to voters via both a visual and a nonvisual
method, such as through an audio component.
   (b) "Direct recording electronic voting system" means a voting
system that records a vote electronically and does not require or
permit the voter to record his or her vote directly onto a tangible
ballot.
   (c) "Voter verified paper audit trail" means a component of a
direct recording electronic voting system that prints a synchronous
paper record facsimile of each electronic ballot and allows each
voter to confirm his or her selections before the voter casts his or
her ballot.
   (d) "Federal qualification" means the system has been certified,
if applicable, by means of qualification testing by a Nationally
Recognized Test Laboratory and has met or exceeded the minimum
requirements set forth in the Performance and Text Standards for
Punch Card, Mark Sense, and Direct Recording Electronic Voting
Systems, or in any successor voluntary standard document, developed
and promulgated by the Federal Election Commission, the Election
Assistance Commission, or the National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
   (e) "Paper record copy" means an auditable document printed by a
voter verified paper audit trail component that corresponds to the
voter's electronic vote and lists the contests on the ballot and the
voter's selections for those contests. A paper record copy is not a
ballot.
   (f) "Parallel monitoring" means the testing of a randomly selected
sampling of voting equipment on election day designed to simulate
actual election conditions to confirm that the system is registering
votes accurately.