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WHEREAS, Residents of the City of Pittsburgh will benefit from the Voter Verified Paper Records with Routine Audits Bill, or HB2000, as proposed by Pennsylvania Representative Dan Frankel which will ensure the safeguard of our system of elections; and
WHERAS, with this bill, after an electronic vote is entered into the computer system a voter-verified paper ballot can be reviewed by the voter to determine its accuracy before it is officially counted as a ballot into the system giving them the option to either sustain their vote or change it; and
WHEREAS, the residents of the City of Pittsburgh will be better served when they are represented in our elections by paper ballots which have the ability to be reviewed and confirmed by the voter before submission; and
WHEREAS, the citizen's Voter Verified Paper Records ballots will then be tallied on Election Day along with the electronic records to assure that they are within a 5% audit with each other; and
WHEREAS, the residents of the City of Pittsburgh will then be assured in the future that their votes will be accurately counted in the elections and their selected candidates will have proper representation.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh expresses its support for Voter Verified Paper Records with Routine Audits; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh recommends that Allegheny County select new voting machines that use a voter-verified paper ballot.