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| 1. | Name: | Virginia Division of Legislative Services Joint Subcommittee to Study Voting Technologies | |||||||||
| 2. | Voting Machine Position: | No stated position to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?" | |||||||||
| 3. | Reasoning: |
No stated position (05/18/06) |
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Credibility Ranking: |
Organization/VIP/OtherIndividuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories. |
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| 5. | Organization | ||||||||||
| A. Description: | Division of the Virginia General Assembly tasked to study certification procedures and processes for voting machine use within the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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| B. Mission: | "Review the procedures and processes for the certification of voting equipment, consider the comparative merits of alternative voting systems, examine procedures for the storage, set-up, deployment, handling and decertification of voting equipment, review processes for dealing with election day problems with voting equipment, and study the proper procedure for handling voting equipment pending election recounts and contests." (On subcommittee's Web site, accessed 05/17/06)
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| C. Structure: | Subcommittee within the Virginia General Assembly | ||||||||||
| D. Members / Constituents: |
Residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia |
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| F. Sr. Executive: | Timothy D. Hugo | ||||||||||
| G. Title: | Chairman | ||||||||||
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| I: # of offices: | 1 | ||||||||||
| I: Staff: | 13 (2 Senate members, 4 House members, and 7 citizen-at-large members)
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| 6. | Relevant Affiliations: | Virginia General Assembly | |||||||||