LD 1759
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transmitted to the Office of the Secretary of State along with
the election results.

 
B.__Each voting district that uses voting machines of any
type must have on hand sufficient provisional ballots to
accommodate any voter whose eligibility to vote is
challenged as well as any voter who chooses to cast a hand-
counted ballot in lieu of a machine-cast or machine-
tabulated vote.__A voter who chooses a provisional ballot is
not required to provide justification for that choice.

 
C.__If a voter detects a discrepancy in a ballot produced by
a touch screen voting machine, that voter must be directed,
by instructions clearly posted adjacent to the machine, to
call the discrepancy to the attention of election officials
on duty, who shall place the ballot in a designated envelope
and note it in a spoiled-ballot log.__The voter must then be
allowed to fill out a provisional ballot or to use another
machine.__The spoiled ballots must be counted at the
conclusion of the voting day, and the totals must be
deducted from the vote totals for that voting district. If
any machine is associated with 5 such discrepancies in a
given election day, that machine must be immediately taken
out of service and impounded, and all ballots associated
with that machine must, at the conclusion of the vote, be
segregated from the rest of the ballots and subjected to a
hand recount to compare with the tally of the machine in
question.__That recount must serve as the final tally for
votes cast on that machine.

 
3.__Proscribed voting machines.__The following types of voting
machines may not be used in the conduct of state elections:

 
A.__Direct recording electronic voting machines;

 
B.__Punch card voting machines;

 
C.__Mechanical lever voting machines; and

 
D.__Any machine that does not produce a paper ballot except
as provided in subsection 2, paragraph A.

 
§832.__Certain electronic connections and Internet voting

 
prohibited

 
Connection of any voting district via the Internet to central
vote collection equipment may not be employed by the State. Any
network of machines in an individual voting place may not be
Internet enabled.__Vote totals for each voting place,
notwithstanding the method of voting, must be transmitted to the


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