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Committee advances voting-system identifier changes; Unicode amendment fails
Summary
Senate Bill 526, which adjusts technical identifier-marker language for voting systems, passed committee 9-4 after the committee adopted a vendor-friendly amendment; an amendment to require ASCII/Unicode compliance was rejected.
The Elections and Apportionment Committee advanced Senate Bill 526 by a 9-4 vote after adopting amendment 2, which relaxed a mandatory requirement to a permissive one to accommodate vendor concerns. A separate amendment that would have required voting systems to support ASCII or Unicode character sets to display accent marks and other diacritics failed 4-9.
The bill’s sponsor explained that amendment 2 changes a "must" to a "may" on one provision…
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