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Committee passes SB 526 after adopting vendor‑friendly amendment; proposed Unicode requirement fails
Summary
Senate Bill 526, which addresses voting‑system identifier requirements, passed the committee 9–4 after a sponsor amendment softened a must‑to‑may requirement. A separate amendment to require ASCII/Unicode support for candidate name characters failed 4–9.
The House Elections and Apportionment Committee approved Senate Bill 526 as amended, moving language about voting‑system identifier fields and related formatting standards that vendors must support. Sponsor Senator Gaskell offered amendment number 2 to change a mandatory requirement to permissive language and to delete a line requiring a specific…
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