Requires ballot scanning machines to have privacy screen, shield, or curtain; requires use of privacy screens and shields at polling places.

This bill requires all ballot scanning machines used in New Jersey to include a privacy screen, shield, or curtain, ensuring voters' ballot choices remain private when inserting their ballots. It also mandates that polling places provide privacy screens, shields, or curtains in voting booths to maintain secrecy while voters prepare their ballots. The law amends existing election statutes (R.S.19:8-7, R.S.19:15-26, and R.S.19:53A-6) to enforce these physical privacy measures at all in-person voting locations using scanning machines. This directly affects voters in counties like Essex, Warren, Middlesex, Union, Gloucester, and Salem, where paper ballots are scanned, but not counties using fully electronic voting systems.