OH Amendment: Secure Voting and Vote Counting. Pls comment.

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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR
SECURE VOTING AND VOTE COUNTING

Be it Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio

ARTICLE XVII - ELECTIONS

Section 6. Secure Voting and Vote Counting

(A) Voting shall be with paper ballots without machines with hand counts only. No machines with software shall be permitted to count votes. No machines with modem-type devices shall be permitted to count votes. All votes shall be counted at the precinct by hand. No vote shall be counted without at least two people from different political parties present.

All adding of precinct totals shall be done at the respective county board of elections and shall be done by hand or by calculating machines which do not have software or modem-type devices.

All adding of county totals shall be done by the state election authority and shall be done by hand or by calculating machines which do not have software or modem-type devices.

(B) All paper ballots after voted shall be put in a ballot box for receiving paper ballots at the precinct level which shall be clear and able to be seen through completely.

(C) The paper ballots shall be numbered with tearaway numbering labels that after the voter has voted shall be torn away from the main portion of the paper ballots. After the voter has voted, their torn away numbering labels shall be kept in a separate box from the paper ballot box as a record of the number of actual voters.

(D) All boards of elections’ records, including but not limited to poll books, blank ballots and voted ballots, shall be kept under lock with two keys, with no person having access to the locks unless another person of a different political party shall be present with a second key.

(E) At the precinct, county and state level, members of the public shall be permitted to observe the voting and vote counting. Members of the public permitted to observe the voting and vote counting shall be determined by public notice of a random drawing, submission of their names and a public drawing of the designated number of names. Publicly drawn observers shall observe in the same room as the voting and counting is done. In addition, a representative of each candidate and a representative of both sides of an issue shall be permitted to observe voting and counting in the precinct in the room in which the voting and counting is done. No observing during voting shall include seeing a ballot of a voter in such a way that it can be identified as that voter’s ballot, without that voter’s written consent.

(F) During voting, observers shall be permitted to photograph the conduct of the election staff and unexpected incidents, but under no circumstances shall observers photograph the ballot of a voter in such a way that it can be identified as that voter’s ballot, without that voter’s written consent.

(G) Observers shall be permitted to audiovisually record the entire vote counting process from the time the voting ends to the time all election staff leave the precinct, county or state counting locations.

(H) At least one member of the news media shall be permitted to observe and audiovisually record during voting and counting of the votes in each precinct, county and state election office. Under no circumstances shall the news media film the ballot of a voter in such a way that it can be identified as that voter’s ballot, without that voter’s written consent.

(I) The totals for each precinct shall be posted at each precinct, the totals for each county shall be posted at each county board of elections, and the totals for the state shall be posted at the state elections office for all observers to view and copy.

(J) There shall be only oral or paper copy transfers of vote totals by the precincts to the counties, by the counties to the state and by the state to any other source until there is an official total. No machines containing software or modem-type devices shall be used to transfer vote totals until the vote count is official.

(K) If any provision of this section or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this section which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this section are declared severable.

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