NY A02606

Requires all ballots to be marked or printed on "durable paper" capable of withstanding multiple hand or machine counts and retaining information for the full retention period

Mandates that voting systems provide voters with individual, voter-verifiable paper ballots that can be either hand-marked or marked using a nontabulating ballot marking device

Prohibits voting machines from encoding votes as barcodes, QR codes, or other codes that voters cannot verify without a code-reading device

Bans voting machines that combine ballot marking with vote tabulating or transmitting functions within the same physical device

Requires local boards of elections to offer every voter at every polling place the option to either hand-mark a paper ballot or use a nontabulating ballot marking device

Allows voting machines purchased before the effective date to continue operating if they use individual, voter-verifiable paper ballots