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Senate committee advances bill to create post-election integrity reviews; critics warn of potential for county targeting
Summary
Senate bill 272 would authorize the State Board of Election Commissioners to conduct systematic post-election reviews (randomly sampling counties and the ability to add counties), extend machine audits to primaries, and require extra staff; proponents say it strengthens scrutiny, while witnesses and several senators raised concerns about selection standards, potential abuse of the Joint Performance Review option, and whether funding for new personnel is secured.
Senator Jim Petty introduced SB 272 to create an election integrity review process that would allow the State Board of Election Commissioners to conduct systematic, post-election reviews of election-related records and extend machine audits to primaries as well as general elections. "If the general assembly wants us to do more to protect election integrity, the place to do that is... absentee voting and voter registration records," Daniel Schultz, director of the State Election Commission, told the committee.
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