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House Amendment 8358

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 2269, as passed by the Senate, as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 13, by inserting after line 8, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Sec.    .  Section 52.1, subsection 2, paragraph
  1  6 h, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  7    h.  "Voting machine" means a mechanical or
  1  8 electronic device, meeting the requirements of section
  1  9 52.7, designated for use in casting, registering,
  1 10 recording, and counting votes at an election.  "Voting
  1 11 machine" includes, but is not limited to, direct
  1 12 recording electronic devices."
  1 13    #2.  Page 13, by inserting after line 19, the
  1 14 following:
  1 15    "Sec.    .  Section 52.5, unnumbered paragraph 2,
  1 16 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1 17    The state commissioner shall formulate, with the
  1 18 advice and assistance of the examiners, and adopt
  1 19 rules governing the testing and examination of any
  1 20 voting machine or electronic voting system by the
  1 21 board of examiners.  The rules shall prescribe the
  1 22 method to be used in determining whether the machine
  1 23 or system is suitable for use within the state and
  1 24 performance standards for voting equipment in use
  1 25 within the state.  The rules shall provide that all
  1 26 electronic voting systems and voting machines approved
  1 27 for use by the examiners after April 9, 2003, shall
  1 28 meet voting systems performance and test standards, as
  1 29 adopted by the federal election commission on April
  1 30 30, 2002, and as deemed adopted by Pub. L. No. 107-
  1 31 252, section 222.  The rules shall include standards
  1 32 for determining when recertification is necessary
  1 33 following modifications to the equipment or to the
  1 34 programs used in tabulating votes, and a procedure for
  1 35 rescinding certification if a system or machine is
  1 36 found not to comply with performance standards adopted
  1 37 by the state commissioner.
  1 38    Sec.    .  Section 52.7, unnumbered paragraphs 2
  1 39 and 4, Code 2003, are amended to read as follows:
  1 40    It must also be so constructed as to prevent voting
  1 41 for more than one person for the same office, except
  1 42 where the voter is lawfully entitled to vote for more
  1 43 than one person for that office; and it must afford
  1 44 the voter an opportunity to vote for any or all
  1 45 persons for that office as the voter is by law
  1 46 entitled to vote for and no more, at the same time
  1 47 preventing the voter from voting for the same person
  1 48 twice.  The voting machine must be so constructed as
  1 49 to provide the voter with an opportunity to change a
  1 50 vote before the ballot is recorded and counted.
  2  1    Such machine shall be so constructed as to
  2  2 accurately account for every vote cast upon it.  The
  2  3 machine shall be so constructed as to remove
  2  4 information from the ballot identifying the voter
  2  5 before the ballot is recorded and counted.  If the
  2  6 machine is a direct electronic recording device, the
  2  7 machine shall be so constructed as to store each
  2  8 ballot cast separate from the ballot tabulation
  2  9 function, which ballot may be reproduced on paper in
  2 10 the case of a recount, manual audit, or machine
  2 11 malfunction."
  2 12    #3.  Title page, line 3, by inserting after the
  2 13 word "practice," the following:  "making changes
  2 14 related to voting machines,".
  2 15    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 16 
  2 17 
  2 18                               
  2 19 FALLON of Polk
  2 20 SF 2269.701 80
  2 21 sc/gg
     

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