Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record.
Summary
Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record. Requires any electronic voting system approved by the State Board of Elections to retain each printed ballot cast. Printed ballots are currently defined to include machine-readable ballots, and the bill amends the definition of a machine-readable ballot to mean a tangible ballot that is marked by a voter or by a system or device operated by voter, is available for verification by the voter at the time the ballot is cast, and is then fed into and scanned by a separate counting machine. The bill amends the requirements for sealing and delivering ballots after an election to include printed ballots; current law only addresses paper ballots.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Mar 11, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
9
Committee
9
Mar 11, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 294 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 21, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 18, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 12, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1053H1
lower
Feb 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20107096D-H1
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned P & E sub: Gubernatorial Appointments
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104039D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mark H. Levine
DDemocratic
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