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Senator proposes pilot of ‘smart’ ballot drop boxes that scan barcodes and capture images
Summary
Sen. Cal Musselman asked the subcommittee to fund a small pilot—five camera-enabled drop boxes that scan ballot barcodes, timestamp and capture a front-facing photo—to give county clerks a new tool for tracing destroyed or mass-dropped ballots; he proposed a modest $75,000 pilot and left data-retention and procurement questions for clerks and staff.
Sen. Cal Musselman told the General Government Appropriations Subcommittee he wants to pilot ‘scan’ drop boxes that read ballot barcodes, capture a front-facing image when a ballot is deposited, and report the drop to county clerks in real time.
“It's a form of voter ID,” Musselman said, describing a system that would associate a ballot’s barcode with a time, place and an image of the person who deposited it. He…
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