1-9-21. Systems designed to print ballots at polling locations; security

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requirements.

Systems designed to print ballots at polling locations shall provide the security capabilities for ballot preparation and shall be capable of:

A. providing a full audit trail of individual voter activity;

B. providing full ballot production audit logs for all activity, including absentee voting by mail, in-person absentee voting, early voting, provisional voting and spoiling ballots;

C. creation and preservation of an audit trail of every ballot issued, including during a period of interrupted communication in the event of loss of network connectivity;

D. suitable security passwords at user, administrator and management levels;

E. preventing the modification of ballot formatting by polling place users; and

F. retaining full functionality and capability of printing ballots during a period of interrupted communication in the event of loss of network connectivity.

History: Laws 2011, ch. 137, § 67.