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Tennessee Statutes § 2-20-101 Utilization of precinct-based optical scanners

⤴ Up to Chapter 20: Tennessee Voter Confidence Act

Statute Text

(a) A county election commission may utilize precinct-based optical scanners.
(b) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Performance audit" means a review of the procedures followed to conduct the election;
(2) "Precinct-based optical scanner" means an optical ballot scanner that is located in the precinct and into which optical scan voter-verified paper ballots, marked either by hand by the voter or with the assistance of a device, are inserted to count the voter verified paper ballot;
(3) "Risk-limiting audit" means a protocol which checks a random sample of ballots chosen by statistical methods;
(4) "Top race" means the presidential race, if the presidential race is on the ballot, or the governor's race, if the governor's race is on the ballot;
(5) "Traditional audit" means a protocol which requires bipartisan teams of election officials to hand count a number of randomly chosen ballots; and
(6) "Voter-verified paper ballot" means a permanent, individual paper ballot that is marked either manually by the voter or with the assistance of a device and verified by the voter as correctly reflecting the voter's intent, before the voter's vote is counted by the precinct-based optical scanner.
(c) It is the intent of the general assembly that any county election commission utilizing a precinct-based optical scanner pursuant to this chapter shall comply in all respects with this chapter and federal law.

History

Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 965 , s 1 , eff. 5/2/2022 .

Acts 2008 , ch. 1108 , §3; 2010 , ch. 612 , §§2, 3; 2011 , ch. 301 , § 1.

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