Bill Text: TX HB56 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to voting system equipment used by counties participating in the countywide polling place program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-08 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB56 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB56-Introduced.html
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| By: Beckley | H.B. No. 56 | |
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| relating to voting system equipment used by counties participating | ||
| in the countywide polling place program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 43.007(c) and (d), Election Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) In conducting the program, the secretary of state shall | ||
| provide for an audit of the voting system equipment [ |
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| and during the election to the extent such an audit is practicable. | ||
| (d) The secretary of state shall select to participate in | ||
| the program each county that: | ||
| (1) has held a public hearing under Subsection (b); | ||
| (2) has submitted documentation listing the steps | ||
| taken to solicit input on participating in the program by | ||
| organizations or persons who represent the interests of voters; | ||
| (3) has implemented a computerized voter registration | ||
| list that allows an election officer at the polling place to verify | ||
| that a voter has not previously voted in the election; | ||
| (4) uses direct recording electronic voting machines, | ||
| ballot marking devices, or hand-marked scannable paper ballots that | ||
| are printed and scanned at the polling place or any other type of | ||
| voting system equipment that the secretary of state determines is | ||
| capable of processing votes for each type of ballot to be voted in | ||
| the county; and | ||
| (5) is determined by the secretary of state to have the | ||
| appropriate technological capabilities. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 43.007(i), Election Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
