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Committee hears narrow housekeeping change to primary counting procedures
Summary
Senator McCamey (McKinney?) and election officials told the committee that Senate Bill 498 would modernize an archaic requirement to manually separate party ballots in certain small, hand-count jurisdictions; proponents said the change codifies current practice in counties that use tabulators and reduces unnecessary manual work.
Senator McCamey opened the hearing on Senate Bill 498, a proposal to modernize and narrow an older statutory requirement that election judges separate ballots by party when preparing for a primary count in jurisdictions that still count ballots by hand.
Senator McCamey told the committee that the requirement is…
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