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Senate committee approves change allowing provisional ballots on new voting machines, rejects tablet-only ballot-posting rule
Summary
A Senate committee approved a bill to allow provisional ballots to be fed through new voting machines while preserving safety steps, but rejected a related election cleanup bill that would let counties post ballot styles in bound books or on tablets, citing concerns about access for voters who prefer paper.
A Senate committee on Dec. 6 advanced a measure that clarifies how provisional ballots may be cast on newer voting machines, while declining to approve a separate cleanup bill that would let counties substitute electronic postings for paper ballot displays.
The committee heard from a presenter representing the Board of Election Commissioners, who said the provisional-ballot bill aligns practice with current law by permitting provisional ballots to be fed through the new machines. The presenter warned that using the machines for provisional ballots "doesn't leave any tags" and explained the bill requires counties to maintain other safety guidelines while allowing the machine-based process when a…
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