Bill > A3543

Introduced Session

This bill requires ballot scanning machines to have a privacy screen, shield, or curtain and requires the use of privacy screens and shields at polling places. Currently, in Essex County, voters who vote in-person fill out a hand-marked paper ballot and insert the ballot into a ballot scanning machine to be counted. In Warren, Middlesex, Union, Gloucester, and Salem counties, voters who vote in-person vote on an electronic voting machine that electronically produces a paper ballot that the voter can verify and then cast. In the rest of the counties of this State, voters who vote in-person vote on voting machines that electronically record and cast the voter's vote. Given the different types of voting machines across various counties, it is the sponsor's belief that no matter which county a voter casts their vote the voter should not lose the privacy and secrecy of the ballot that is sacred to voting.

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Tennille McCoy (D)*,  Annette Quijano (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 02/05/2024)

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