February 07, 2007

Initiative Requiring Paper Ballot Record To Be Circulated

From the Attorney General title and summary for the initiative measure:

"TANGIBLE BALLOTS. DIRECT-RECORDING ELECTRONIC DEVICES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Amends definition of “ballot” to require votes on a direct-recording electronic device, such as a touchscreen, result in a paper or other tangible ballot. Requires paper or other tangible ballot to be a physical object that may be indelibly marked by voters’ physical action and be susceptible to counting through use of ordinary physical senses. Does not prohibit use of electronic, mechanical, or optical voting or vote counting, so long as tangible physical object result."

Other information about this proposed measure is available from the Secretary of State's press release.

You can read the text of the "California Tangible Ballot Act of 2008" here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at February 7, 2007 12:29 PM