Reply #66: doesn't matter what the bill ULTIMATELY means, you can bet your life

[Land Shark]

that it will be used as an excuse by elections officials to deny access to the paper records.

WOuld be such a simple thing for the Holt bill to have said that after the EAC audits are finished and the election certified, if the (usually ten day) statute of limitations has expired on an election contest, then any person may request under the local public disclosure or freedom of information act request that the copies of the paper records be produced....

as it stands, holt says the paper records will be preserved "in the same manner" as paper ballots for that jurisdiction, which is to say, in a locked chain of custody & a "public can't see it" way.