5499-S AMS MULL GORR 007

03/11/2005 WITHDRAWN

SSB 5499 - S AMD TO S AMD (KAST HESS 016)223

By Senator Mulliken

On page 8, after line 19, insert the following:

"NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. A new section is added to chapter 29A.36 RCW to read as follows:

All provisional ballots and related materials, including the inner security envelope and the outer return envelope, must either:

(1) Be printed on colored paper distinctive from regular ballots, absentee ballots, and their related materials; or

(2) Be imprinted with a bar code for the purpose of identifying the ballot as a provisional ballot. The bar code must not identify the voter.

Poll-site counting devices shall be incapable of tabulating provisional ballots."

Renumber the sections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.

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EFFECT: (1) Requires that provisional ballots and related materials be either printed on colored paper distinctive from other ballots, or be imprinted with a bar code for purposes of identifying the ballot as a provisional ballot;

(2) Requires that poll-site voting machines be incapable of counting provisional ballots; and

(3) Requires that the bar code not identify the voter.