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Committee holds HB254 and advances RS32460 on ballot-authentication and anti-duplication measures
Summary
Representative Tanner asked the committee to hold House Bill 254 and introduced RS32460 to update how Idaho statutes identify authentic election ballots.
Representative Tanner asked the House State Affairs Committee to hold House Bill 254 and to introduce RS32460, a related draft that adjusts statutory language about official-election-ballot identification and provides guidance for modern ballot-authentication technology.
Tanner said the change addresses a statutory mismatch: current language about unique markings is keyed to optical-scanner-era practice, while newer systems can generate randomized unique identifiers for individual ballots. He told the committee the draft seeks to accommodate systems that can assign unique IDs while preserving voter anonymity. “The unique identifier can never ever identify the voter,” Tanner said, and “the unique…
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