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This bill aims to reform election processes and enhance protections by defining "Public Election Related Information and Data" to include all data within election management systems, such as cast vote records (CVRs), and making it publicly accessible through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), with specific exemptions from FOIA being declared inapplicable for this data. It mandates the maintenance of this election data, including CVRs, without alteration and requires its preservation for at least five years, and also introduces restrictions on electronic voting systems that are owned or produced by foreign entities or manufactured abroad, mandating hand counting of paper ballots if such systems are disapproved. Furthermore, the bill requires random annual physical and internal code inspections of all electronic voting equipment to ensure they lack wireless connectivity, do not contain vote-manipulating algorithms, and only count votes in whole numbers, and establishes procedures for investigating allegations of election fraud, including the involvement of county sheriffs and potential forensic investigations.

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