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GA HB1228
Bill
Status
Introduced
3/12/2012
Primary Sponsor
Stephanie Benfield
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AI Summary
- Eliminates the use of direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and mechanical voting machines (lever machines) in all Georgia primaries and elections, effective January 1, 2018, with a five-year phase-out beginning in 2013 requiring replacement in 20% of precincts per year
- Redefines "ballot" and "official ballot" to mean only paper instruments, including optical scan ballots, removing references to mechanical or electronic ballots throughout state election code
- Requires mandatory hand-count audits of one randomly selected contested race at each precinct after optical scan tabulation is complete, with hand-count totals used as the official results in the event of any discrepancy with machine totals
- Mandates that all recounts of optical scan ballots be performed manually using paper ballot counting procedures rather than by running ballots through tabulating machines again
- Removes the Secretary of State's duty to develop and program DRE ballots and strikes numerous code provisions related to voting machine keys, DRE equipment tampering penalties, and voting machine operation procedures, replacing them with reserved placeholders
Legislative Description
Primaries and elections; use of direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and voting machines; eliminate
Last Action
House Second Readers
3/13/2012
Committee Referrals
Governmental Affairs3/12/2012
Full Bill Text
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