82R11811 JRH-F
 
  By: Taylor of Collin H.B. No. 3158
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to verification of precinct and ballot styles during the
  public testing of direct recording electronic voting machine
  systems.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 129.023(c), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  The general custodian of election records shall adopt
  procedures for testing that:
               (1)  direct the testing board to cast votes;
               (2)  verify that each contest position, as well as each
  precinct and ballot style, on the ballot can be voted and is
  accurately counted [for each precinct and ballot style];
               (3)  include overvotes and undervotes for each race, if
  applicable to the system being tested;
               (4)  include straight-party votes and crossover votes;
               (5)  include write-in votes, when applicable to the
  election;
               (6)  include provisional votes, if applicable to the
  system being tested;
               (7)  calculate the expected results from the test
  ballots;
               (8)  ensure that each voting machine has any public
  counter reset to zero and presented to the testing board for
  verification before testing;
               (9)  require that, for each feature of the system that
  allows disabled voters to cast a ballot, at least one vote be cast
  and verified by a two-person testing board team using that feature;
  and
               (10)  require that, when all votes are cast, the
  general custodian of election records and the testing board observe
  the tabulation of all ballots and compare the actual results to the
  expected results.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.