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Senate committee advances bill to require serial numbers on duplicate ballots
Summary
A Senate committee advanced a bill to require serial numbers linking original and remade ballots, a change sponsors and election officials say would improve transparency and allow later verification during recounts; a voter-integrity group cited a local incident where unmarked ballots could not be tracked.
A Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs committee on an unspecified date voted to advance legislation that would require officials to place sequential serial numbers on both original and duplicate (remade) ballots so the two can be linked for later review.
Senator Steve Kroll (Senator, District 3) said the measure clarifies existing practice and adds explicit, sequential numbering to damaged ballots and their replacements to improve "ballot transparency." He told the committee the bill "has…
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