Bill to Make Recount Elections More Expensive Awaits First Senate Committee
A bill that would make election recounts more expensive, as well extend the the number of days after an election that ballots can still be received, inched closer to their first Senate Committee this week.
Assembly Bill 930, authored by Assemblyman Chris Ward (D-San Diego), would specifically allow a voter requesting a recount to specify the order in which votes are recounted by the batch in which ballots were scanned or, in the case of a recount that involves more than one county, the order in which counties will conduct the recount within the jurisdiction. In addition, AB 930 would prohibit unauthorized access to the voting system in use by the elections office and impose other protections on access to a voter’s personal identifying information, as well as require the requester to reimburse the county for the cost of each member of a recount board, and would set qualifications for an official appointed to supervise a special recount board.
The bill would also impose specified requirements for notices issued by elections officials. If the recount is to be conducted manually and the voting system has the capability to display ballot images, AB 930 require the voter requesting the recount to select whether the recount will be conducted by use of paper ballots or the official ballot images. If more than one voter requests a recount for the same office or measure and at least one request is for the recount to be conducted by use of paper ballots, the bill would require the county elections official to conduct only a manual recount of the paper ballots, the result of which would be controlling.
Finally, AB 930 would extend the deadline for ballots cast in all-mailed ballot elections being considered timely cast if they are received by the voter’s election official by mail from no later than 3 days after election day to 7 days after election day.
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