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Committee backs bill to preserve electronic election records for government research
Summary
A House committee voted 8-1 to recommend passage of HB 263, which would require counties to retain electronic election records and limit access to government research purposes; clerks raised cost and workload concerns.
A House committee on March 3 voted 8-1 to favorably recommend House Bill 263, titled “Election Record Amendments,” after discussion about which election materials should be retained, how long they should be kept and who should be allowed access.
Representative Michael Thurston, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure clarifies which election materials must be preserved, requires an electronic copy of certain records and limits access to government purposes such as legislative committees, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general and auditors. “What the bill does is there's three parts to this. One, it clarifies what election records are to be made public,” Thurston said. He described the second part as addressing retention and the third as regulating access.
The bill’s backers said the measure…
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