Mike Gaskill
- Republican
- Senator
- District 25
Author
Requires a county election board to test certain voting machines to ensure that an absentee ballot can be retracted before tabulation of the ballot if the ballot is required to be rejected. Requires the public test of a voting system to test whether a rejected ballot is retracted. Voids a March 25, 2022, advisory opinion adopted by the Indiana election commission. Provides that, to be approved by the Indiana election commission for use in Indiana, a voting system must meet certain standards of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United States Election Assistance Commission on February 10, 2021. Allows a county to continue to use an optical scan ballot card voting system or an electronic voting system if certain matters concerning the voting system were approved before October 1, 2025. Allows a voting system to include a retraction feature concerning certain votes cast on absentee ballots.
Public Law 212
Signed by the Governor
Signed by the President of the Senate
Signed by the Speaker
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 512: yeas 40, nays 10
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 552: yeas 65, nays 26
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
Senator Spencer removed as conferee
CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
Senator Schmitt removed as advisor
Senator Schmitt added as conferee
CCR # 1 filed in the House
Representative Pierce K removed as advisor
Representative Jackson C removed as conferee
Representative Pierce K added as conferee
Senator Schmitt added as advisor
House conferees appointed: Wesco and Jackson C
House advisors appointed: Pierce K, Pressel, Boy, Errington and Pryor
Motion to dissent filed
Senate dissented from House amendments
Senate conferees appointed: Gaskill and Spencer
Senate advisors appointed: Ford J.D. and Donato
Returned to the Senate with amendments
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 349: yeas 90, nays 0
Amendment #3 (Wesco) prevailed; voice vote
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
Referred to the House
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 213: yeas 47, nays 1
House sponsor: Representative Wesco
Amendment #1 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Senator Donato added as second author
Committee report: do pass, adopted
Authored by Senator Gaskill
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| Fiscal Note: SB0526.06.ENRH.FN001 |
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