ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session Majority Research Staff
	Senate: JUDE DP 4-2-1-0 | 3^rd Read 16-11-3-0 House: FMAE DP 4-3-0-0

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SB 1057: fraud countermeasures; paper ballots

Sponsor: Senator Finchem, LD 1

Caucus & COW

Overview

Requires any vendor that provides fraud countermeasures that are contained in and on paper used for election ballots to be certified by outlined standards and requires such countermeasures to include at least three of the listed features.

History

Current statute outlines that general election ballots must be printed with black ink on white paper of sufficient thickness to prevent printing from being discernable from the back. The same type must be used for the names of all candidates (A.R.S. § 16-502).

A county board of supervisors, or the city or town clerk in municipal elections, must prepare and provide ballots containing the names of all persons whose certificates of nomination have been filed with them. All ballots cast in elections for public office within Arizona, and the cards of instruction to the voters, must be printed, delivered and distributed at public expense and must be a county charge, but when used at local elections must be a charge against the municipality in which the local election is held (A.R.S. § 16-503).

Provisions

1. Requires any vendor that provides fraud countermeasures that are contained in and on the paper used for ballots to be ISO 27001 certified, ISO 17025 certified or ISO 9001:2015 certified. (Sec. 2)

2. Requires ballot fraud countermeasures to include the use of at least three of the following:

a. unique, controlled-supply watermarked clearing bank specification 1 security paper;

b. secure holographic foil that acts as a visual deterrent and anti-copy feature;

c. a branded overprint of any hologram that personalizes the hologram with customer logo;

d. custom complex security background designs with banknote-level security;

e. secure variable digital infill;

f. thermochromic, tri-thermochromic, photochromic or optically variable inks;

g. stealth numbering in ultraviolet, infrared or taggant inks;

h. multicolored micro-numismatic invisible ultraviolet designs;

i. unique forensic fraud detection technology that is built into security inks; or

j. a unique bar code or QR code that is accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter's ballot as it is processed. (Sec. 2)

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