TITLE: Relating to verification of precinct and ballot styles during the public testing of direct recording electronic voting machine systems.

SUMMARY: Relating to verification of precinct and ballot styles during the public testing of direct recording electronic voting machine systems.

FULL TEXT:
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.