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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the systems used in a central counting station. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended |
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to read as follows: |
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(b) An authority operating a central counting station under |
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this chapter may not purchase or use a [centrally counted optical] |
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ballot scanner unless the ballot scanner can only use [scan system |
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that uses] a data storage device [disc] on which information, once |
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written, is incapable [capable] of being modified without rendering |
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the device unreadable. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |