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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 88(R)

Senate Bill 1661

Senate Author:  Hughes et al.

Effective:  9-1-23

House Sponsor:  Smith et al.


            Senate Bill 1661 amends the Election Code to restrict the ballot scan system that an authority operating a central counting station may purchase or use to a system that is only capable of using a data transfer media device that meets the following criteria:

·        once a cast vote record is written, the device is incapable of being modified without automatic detection of the modification and automatic rejection of the cast vote record; and

·        the device does not allow the automatic detection and rejection of a modified cast vote record to be overridden or circumvented.