AB 683, as introduced, Low. 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 19271 of the Elections Code is amended
2to read:
As used in this article:
4(a) “Accessible” means that the information provided on the
5paper record copy from the voter verified paper audit trail
6mechanism is provided or conveyed to voters via both a visual and
7a nonvisual method, such as through an audio component.
8(b) “Direct recording electronic voting system” means a voting
9system that records a vote electronically and does not require or
10permit the voter to record his or her vote directly onto a tangible
11ballot.
12(c) “Voter verified paper audit trail” means a component of a
13direct recording electronic voting system that prints a
14begin delete contemporaneousend deletebegin insert
synchronousend insert paper recordbegin delete copyend deletebegin insert facsimileend insert of each
15electronic ballot and allows each voter to confirm his or her
16selections before the voter casts his or her ballot.
17(d) “Federal qualification” means the system has been certified,
18if applicable, by means of qualification testing by a nationally
19recognized test laboratory and has met or exceeded the minimum
20requirements set forth in the Performance and Text Standards for
21Punch Card, Mark Sense, and Direct Recording Electronic Voting
22Systems, or in any successor voluntary standard document,
23developed and promulgated by the Federal Election Commission,
24the Election Assistance Commission, or the National Institute of
25Standards and Technology.
26(e) “Paper record copy” means an auditable document printed
27by a voter verified paper audit trail component that corresponds
28to the voter’s electronic vote and lists the contests on the ballot
29and the voter’s selections for those contests. A paper record copy
30is not a ballot.
31(f) “Parallel monitoring” means the testing of a randomly
32selected sampling of voting equipment on election day designed
33to simulate actual election conditions to confirm that the system
34is registering votes accurately.
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