Election Transparency and Accountability Act
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Overview
The Election Transparency and Accountability Act aims to increase public confidence in South Carolina’s elections by requiring greater record-keeping, expanding voter observation rights, and implementing post-election audits. Specifically, the bill mandates county boards of voter registration and elections to maintain detailed records, allow citizens to observe election processes, require inventory tracking of voting equipment, necessitate hand-counted audits of all votes, and establish procedures for investigating discrepancies between audit results and vote totals.
Key provisions
- Requires county boards to maintain and provide records of cast votes, poll lists, and testing reports upon request.
- Grants citizens the right to observe election processes, including testing, voting, and ballot handling.
- Establishes inventory record-keeping protocols and chain of custody requirements for voting system components.
- Mandates postelection hand counts of all votes cast in contested races.
- Requires investigation and potential hand recounts when postelection audit results significantly deviate from tabulated vote counts.
- Specifies procedures for notifying the public of hand-count audits.
- Permits observers to access and view ballots during audits.
- Requires reporting of discrepancies exceeding a certain threshold to the State Election Commission and the Office of the Inspector General.
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