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Committee backs public-facing vote board link to show roll-call results in near real time
Summary
Following an NCSL primer and an LSO IT demo, the committee directed staff to create a public web link to the House and Senate roll‑call pages so recorded votes will be viewable in near real time; members debated in‑chamber billboards vs. online feeds and raised process and security questions.
The Select Committee heard a two-part briefing Oct. 24 on electronic voting and vote displays and unanimously recommended that staff create a public‑facing link to show roll‑call activity in near real time.
Miss Wendy Madsen of the National Conference of State Legislatures provided a primer on voting systems and display practices, noting Wyoming uses a combination system that captures oral roll calls in an electronic system and was an early leader in distributing recorded roll calls to the public website.
Jamie Schaub (LSO IT) demonstrated a mockup of an…
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