SSB 5499 -
By Senators Mulliken, Parlette
PULLED 03/08/2005
On page 5, after line 36, insert the following:
"NEW SECTION. Sec. 3 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. Poll-site counting machines must be
programmed to count only those provisional ballots with a poll-site bar
code.
The bar code must not identify the voter."
Renumber the sections following consecutively and correct internal references accordingly.
SSB 5499 -
By Senators Mulliken, Parlette
PULLED 03/08/2005
In line 4 of the title, after "29A.84.650;" insert "adding a new section to chapter 29A.36 RCW;"
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 programmed only to
count provisional ballots with a poll-site bar code; and
(3) Requires that the bar code not identify the voter.