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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 848

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Relating to: maintaining electronic voting system or automatic tabulating equipment data for 22 months after an election. (FE)

Municipality — Officers Voting machine

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a municipal clerk may clear or erase detachable recording

units and compartments for automatic tabulating equipment used in an electronic

voting system in a primary or election 14 days after the primary or 21 days after the

election. Before clearing or erasing the units or compartments, the municipal clerk

is required to transfer the data contained in the units or compartments to a disk or

other recording medium, which must be retained for at least 22 months after the

primary or election to which the data relate. Under this bill, all other data stored on

an electronic voting system or automatic tabulating equipment, including log file

data, downloads, and uploads, must be retained for at least 22 months after the

primary or election to which the data relate.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Gundrum (R) , Ramthun (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wichgers (R)

3 cosponsors

Brooks (R) , Jacque (R) , Nass (R)

Full history

  1. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Ramthun, Wichgers, Behnke, Brandtjen, Gundrum and Thiesfeldt; cosponsored by Senators Jacque and Nass

  2. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Feb 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Brooks added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1