SB 250 — An Act amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, in ballots, providing for antifraud ballot paper, vendor certification and antifraud measures.

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imposingWARD, dutiesMARCH upon14, 2023 SENATOR DUSH, STATE GOVERNMENT, AS AMENDED, MARCH 19, 2024 AN ACT Amending the Secretaryact of theJune Commonwealth,3, courts,1937 county(P.L.1333, boardsNo.320), ofentitled "An act concerning elections, countyincluding commissioners;general, municipal, special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates, primary and election expenses and election contests;

creating imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth, courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;

and repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to elections," in ballots, providing for antifraud ballot paper, vendor certification and antifraud measures.

20230SB0250PN043920230SB0250PN1432 - 2 - (10) Invisible ultraviolet microtext with an ultraviolet image minimum height of 0.3 millimeters and maximum height of 0.5 millimeters.

20230SB0250PN043920230SB0250PN1432 - 3 - The image must incorporate multiple security graphic techniques and be generated using anticounterfeit design software that is commercially available only for approved and accredited printers.

(17) Serialized black QR code in which the same code is <-- printed on the top left corner and bottom right corner and that can be read by native QR functions of iOS and Android smartphones that redirect the voter to a web-based voter information page and that tracks the voter's ballot as it is processed.

(18) (17) Paper that is eight and one-half inches wide by twenty-<-- twotwenty-two inches long and that weighs eighty grams per square meter.

(19) A paper receipt for the voter that is a perforated <-- portion of the ballot, that is suitable for the voter to remove from the ballot after completing the ballot and that contains the lot number and sequence number of the sheet of paper on which the ballot is printed.

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