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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the use of direct recording electronic voting machines. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Chapter 129, Election Code, is amended by adding |
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Section 129.002 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 129.002. PAPER AUDIT TRAIL REQUIRED. (a) A voting |
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system that consists of direct recording electronic voting machines |
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may not be used in an election unless the system: |
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(1) has: |
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(A) been certified or otherwise approved by means |
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of qualification testing by a nationally recognized test |
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laboratory; and |
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(B) met or exceeded the minimum requirements |
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contained in "Performance and Test Standards for Punch Card, Mark |
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Sense, and Direct Recording Electronic Voting Systems" or a |
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successor voluntary standards document developed and adopted by the |
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Federal Election Commission, the Election Assistance Commission, |
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or the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and |
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(2) creates a contemporaneous auditable paper record |
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copy of each electronic ballot that allows a voter to confirm the |
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choices the voter made through both a visual and a nonvisual method, |
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such as through an audio component, before the voter casts the |
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ballot. |
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(b) The paper record copy must list the contests on the |
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ballot and the voter's choices in those contests. The paper record |
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copy is not a ballot. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2008. |