Ballots could be printed on-site under election reform bill
Local boards of elections could use a system that allows voters to make their choices electronically but print their ballots in order to be counted under a bill headed to the Senate floor.
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The bill also authorizes a new type of voting device that would allow voters to make their choices on an electronic device, such as a touch-screen machine, which then prints the completed ballot. Those ballots would then be counted by running the paper copies through a scanner.
"We want the ballots to be retrievable," said Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, the bill's sponsor. "Those ballots don't necessarily have to be pre-printed."
Lewis' bill would allow the State Board of Elections to authorize local counties to use such machines. Currently, the state board can't certify any new system that doesn't use pre-printed ballots.
The measure cleared the Rules Committee on a voice vote and next heads to the Senate floor.
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