2017 -- S 0794

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT

AND SUPPLIES

     Introduced By: Senator Erin P. Lynch Prata

     Date Introduced: April 25, 2017

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     (Board of Elections)

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 17-19-13 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-19 entitled "Conduct

of Election and Voting Equipment, and Supplies" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     17-19-13. Exhibition of machines for instructional purposes.

     The local board shall may designate suitable and adequate times and places where optical

scan voting equipment and sample ballots showing titles of offices to be filled and, so far as

practicable, the names of candidates to be voted for at the next election shall be exhibited for the

purpose of giving instructions as to the manner of casting a vote to all voters who apply. No

optical scan precinct count unit that is to be used in an election shall be used for the instruction

after it has been prepared and sealed for the election.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT

AND SUPPLIES

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     This act would give local boards discretion to designate times and places where optical

scan voting equipment and sample ballots are exhibited for instructional purposes.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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