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STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Leventis
Document Path: l:\council\bills\gjk\20049sd07.doc

Introduced in the Senate on January 9, 2007
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Electronic voting machines

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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    1/9/2007  Senate  Introduced and read first time SJ-143
    1/9/2007  Senate  Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-143
   1/17/2007  Senate  Referred to Subcommittee: Martin (ch), Malloy, Campsen, 
                        Williams

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

1/9/2007

TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-1640, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO VOTING MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT BEGINNING WITH THE 2008 GENERAL ELECTION, ALL ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES MUST PRINT OUT A RECEIPT SHOWING HOW THE VOTER CAST HIS VOTE THAT MUST BE DEPOSITED IN A RECEPTACLE BY THE VOTER TO VERIFY THE VOTE TALLEY IF THERE IS A RECOUNT.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 7-13-1640 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 103 of 1999, is further amended by adding at the end:

"(D)    Beginning with the 2008 general election, an electronic voting machine must print out a receipt showing how the voter cast his vote that must be deposited in a receptacle by the voter, which only must be used to verify the vote at the polling place if there is a recount."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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