Id. § 659:35, I (revisions underlined). The violation of the statute is a fine of up to $1,000. penalty for a Id. § 659:35, IV; id. § 651:2, IV(a). The original version of HB366, the bill amending section 659:35, I, provided that "[n]o voter shall take a photograph or a digital image of his or her marked ballot," and was introduced by State Representative Timothy Horrigan on January 3, 2013. Horrigan stated that "[t]he main reason this bill is necessary is to prevent situations where a voter could be coerced into posting proof that he or she voted a particular way." The bill started at the House Committee on Election Law, which recommended its passage, and the members of which expressed rationales for the bill similar to Horrigan's. The bill then went to the House Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan spoke in support of the bill, emphasizing the need to prevent vote buying and to protect the "privacy of [the] ballot." Though a majority of the members of the Criminal Justice Committee supported the bill, a minority disagreed and filed a report concluding that the bill was "an intrusion on free speech." In order to restrict the bill's scope to activity connected to vote buying, the minority suggested amending the bill as follows: This prohibition shall include taking a digital image or photograph of his or her marked ballot and distributing - 5 -