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Bill Would Require Scannable Ballots Where Counties Opt for Hand Counts; Local Volunteers Oppose
Summary
House Bill 3113 would require counties that opt to hand count paper ballots to use ballots formatted for optical‑scan tabulators, a change that sponsors say would speed verification and opponents say would impose vendor‑driven costs.
The Committee on State Affairs heard testimony on House Bill 3113, which would require counties that conduct hand counts of paper ballots to use ballots formatted so they can be scanned and tabulated by optical‑scan voting machines.
Sponsor Senator Pete Flores told the committee that while hand counting “isn’t inherently wrong,” human counting introduces error and that “hand counting is costly, time consuming, less secure, less accurate.” He said HB 3113 would not…
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