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Committee approves substitute to SB214, raises recount threshold to 1% and adds cybersecurity seat to advisory panel
Summary
The House Rules Committee approved a substitute to Senate Bill 214 that defines 'hand-marked paper ballots,' adds a cybersecurity expert to the elections advisory committee, requires serialized ballot batch identifiers and raises the automatic recount threshold from 0.5% to 1%; members raised concerns about timing ahead of elections.
The House Rules Committee approved a substitute to Senate Bill 214 (LC 474 318S) after a presentation from Vice Chair Levitt and brief questions from committee members.
Vice Chair Levitt told the panel that the substitute makes several targeted changes to the elections code, including creating a defined term for "hand-marked paper ballots," adding an elector who is a cybersecurity expert to the advisory committee appointed by the secretary of state, requiring a serialized ballot batch identifier on ballots, and moving the automatic recount threshold from one-half of one percent to one percent. "There are about 8 or 9 changes on it," Levitt said while walking members through the…
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