PRINTER'S NO. 1718
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1193
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY TEPLITZ, BREWSTER, WHITE, FONTANA, HAYWOOD AND
SCHWANK, APRIL 19, 2016
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 19, 2016
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
and defining membership of county boards of elections;
imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
elections," in county boards of elections, further providing
for preservation of records; and, in electronic voting
systems, further providing for requirements of electronic
voting machines.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 309 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, amended July
14, 1961 (P.L.648, No.334), is amended to read:
Section 309. Preservation of Records.--All documents, papers
and records in the office of the county board of elections of
each county shall be preserved therein for a period of at least
eleven (11) months, and all official ballots [and], the contents
of ballot boxes and all voter verified paper audit trails shall
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be preserved therein for a period of at least four (4) months;
in the event the county board has been notified in writing by
the district attorney of the county, or by a judge of a court of
record, to preserve said papers or contents of ballot boxes for
a longer period of time, for the purposes of pending prosecution
or litigation, said records shall be preserved accordingly.
Section 2. Section 1107-A of the act is amended by adding a
paragraph to read:
Section 1107-A. Requirements of Electronic Voting Systems.--
No electronic voting system shall, upon any examination or
reexamination, be approved by the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
or by any examiner appointed by him, unless it shall be
established that such system, at the time of such examination or
reexamination:
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(18) On and after the first municipal election that occurs
after January 2017, unless sooner required by the Help America
Vote Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-252, 52 U.S.C. ยง 21081 et
seq.), provides a voter verified paper audit trail if the voting
machine is a direct recording electronic voting machine.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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