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Lawmakers aim to restore trust in elections Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee discusses voter integrity bills By Chris Rosato | April 20, 2021 at 8:13 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 10:56 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - With about half the countryâs trust in the voting system shaken, lawmakers in Louisiana are looking to restore that trust in the stateâs elections with a new bill. âSenate Bill 221 is the voting systems bill that I believe will provide a much more open, transparent, fair, and accountable process for procuring voting systems,â said Sen. Sharon Hewitt (R-Slidell), who authored the bill. Hewittâs bill would establish what she calls oversight committees to review how the state purchases voting machines. They would also set state standards for how election results are to be monitored and counted.