LA VOTING MACHINES — A proposal that started moving forward in the Louisiana state Senate would rework the way Louisiana shops for voting machines. The legislation comes after two failed efforts to replace the state’s voting system ended in controversy. The proposal is from Senate Republican leader Sharon Hewitt from Slidell.
"The Senate Bill 221 is the Voting Systems Bill that I believe will provide a much more open, transparent, fair and accountable process for procuring voting systems," Hewitt explained.
"The Senate Bill 221 is the Voting Systems Bill that I believe will provide a much more open, transparent, fair and accountable process for procuring voting systems," La. State Senator Sharon Hewitt of Slidell, LA
Hewitt’s bill would create a commission to analyze and select the type of voting system that could be bought, add new layers of legislative oversight, and broaden the types of voting systems allowed which would remove some voting machine decision-making from Louisiana’s Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin who oversees voting in Louisiana.
"While the Chairwoman and I have a difference of opinion on this, we have agreed to work together toward a solution and I think we're on the path of that solution," Ardoin said.
The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee sent the bill to the full Senate for debate without objection.
