1 Counting and Tabulation to be Public. Amend RSA 659:63 to read as follows:

659:63 Counting and Tabulation to be Public. The counting and tabulation of votes shall be public and conducted within the guardrail and shall not be adjourned nor postponed until it shall have been completed. No ballot shall be placed within 4 feet of the guardrail during the counting of votes. In this section, "tabulation" means the aggregation of results from the printed results from the voting machine and hand counts to determine the final results of an election in a polling place or at the central polling location provided in RSA 659:59. Documents generated during the tabulation of votes shall be available for public review when election results are announced at the polling place. If RSA 659:75, II applies, the printed results from the voting machine shall be posted for public review at the polling place within 60 minutes of running the last ballot through the machine or machines.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

1 Counting and Tabulation to be Public. Amend RSA 659:63 to read as follows:

659:63 Counting and Tabulation to be Public. The counting and tabulation of votes shall be public and conducted within the guardrail and shall not be adjourned nor postponed until it shall have been completed. No ballot shall be placed within 4 feet of the guardrail during the counting of votes. In this section, "tabulation" means the aggregation of results from the printed results from the voting machine and hand counts to determine the final results of an election in a polling place or at the central polling location provided in RSA 659:59. Documents generated during the tabulation of votes shall be available for public review when election results are announced at the polling place. If RSA 659:75, II applies, the printed results from the voting machine shall be posted for public review at the polling place within 60 minutes of running the last ballot through the machine or machines. A city, town or municipality which uses electronic ballot counting devices shall, at the request of 10 registered voters within that city, town, or municipality who submit a written request for 2 specific elections on the ballot to be verified before 10:00 a.m. on election day, perform a machine count verification before the election results are tabulated. The verification shall compare the physical ballots cast for 2 candidates in 2 different races counted by an electronic ballot counting device voting machine, to those reported on the machine results. If the verification results are found to deviate by plus or minus 0.2 percent from the machine count, all races on the ballot shall be hand counted.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.