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Committee passes bill on voting‑system identifier rules after vendor concerns; Unicode amendment fails

2784932 · March 26, 2025
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Summary

Senate Bill 526 was reported from committee 9-4 after adoption of a technical change accommodating vendor concerns; an amendment to require Unicode/ASCII compliance for name diacritics failed 4-9.

Senate Bill 526 advanced from committee after members adopted a technical amendment to change a required (“must”) provision into a permissive (“may”) provision and to remove a line specifying required identifier information. The sponsor said the change…

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