| "These machines use thermal paper, and as anyone who has ever left an ATM receipt on the passenger seat in their car for too long knows, there's far too great of a risk that the vote results on these paper trails could vanish into thin air," said Bowen, the chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee. "Under current law, elections officials already have to keep all ballots and AVVPATs for 22 months, but if the actual votes on the audit trail disappear, it undermines the requirement to keep the ballots and the paper audit trails." |
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