Or the stories have fretted about ways the system's email capacity might let legislators violate state public meeting laws. The fact is, law-making in Nevada, suddenly, is coming right into your home and office. Because it's not only members of the state Assembly and Senate who are getting a hefty new computer system. The Internet site, parallel to the server behind the lawmakers' laptops, says Nichols, will immediately report all the bills that have been introduced, the status of each, the daily agendas for the different committees, certain Nevada Revised Statutes, the email addresses for all members of the Legislature, and more. O'Donnell, a computer business owner, says he's excited about the new approach.
Voting controls the microphones, and the buttons on peoples' desk, and the tape recorder, and so on.
Manzullo says all four parts work together. In other words, bill status would be available, through the Internet, as well as any introduced bill, as well as amendments to bills, and the enrolling and engrossing process would occur. All the laptops receive their updates of new information by automatic radio frequency downloads. And in the case of many legislators, they are not very familiar with the keyboard where everything is laid out. The system is designed in a way that a touch screen ATM machine that a touch screen ATM machine would work.