§812-A.__Accessible voting equipment

1.__Accessible voting equipment at each polling place.__The Secretary of State, in compliance with the voting accessibility requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, shall provide one direct recording electronic voting machine, or other voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities, for use at each polling place used in the conduct of state elections.__ Such machines must produce permanent paper records that provide a manual audit capacity for the machines and must also provide voters with audio functions that enable the voters to verify their ballots aurally before the votes are cast, and all such machines are exempt from the requirements of section 812, subsection 10.

Additional accessible voting machines may be used in the conduct of state elections, but those machines must meet the requirements set forth in section 812.

2.__Moratorium.__Notwithstanding subsection 1, the State may not purchase or approve direct recording electronic voting machines, or other voting systems equipped for individuals with disabilities, at any time prior to March 1, 2005.__This subsection is repealed March 1, 2005.

Sec. 9. Report on implementation. The Secretary of State shall report, by January 15, 2005, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over statewide election matters on progress made to implement the accessible voting equipment requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002. The report must include a plan to comply with the federal law and to promote voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities through the purchase and implementation of one direct recording electronic voting machine, or other voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities, for each polling place used in state elections.