AI-assisted research summary: Voting systems certified for use in state elections must meet a list of technical requirements, including audit serial numbers, protective covers, portability for heavier systems, non-networked operation, public ballot counts, printing capabilities, and report export.
1-9-7.7. Voting systems; technical requirements. Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall: A. have a unique embedded internal serial number for audit purposes; B. be supplied with a dust- and moisture-proof cover for transportation and storage purposes; C. if the net weight of the system, or aggregate of voting device parts, is over twenty pounds, have self-contained wheels so that the system can be easily rolled by one person on rough pavement and can roll through a standard thirty-inch door frame; D. be a stand-alone, non-networked election system such that all pre-election, election day and post-election events and activities can be recorded and retained in each device; E. employ scalable technology allowing easy enhancements that meet United States election assistance commission standards and state law; F. have ancillary equipment, such as printers, power sources, microprocessors and switch and indicator matrices, that is installed internally or is modular and transportable; G. display publicly the number of ballots processed; H. be able to print: (1) an alphanumeric printout of the contests, candidates and vote totals when the polls are opened so that the poll workers can verify that the counters for each candidate are on zero; (2) an alphanumeric printout of the contests, candidates and vote totals at the close of the polls, which printouts shall contain the system serial number and public counter total; and (3) as many copies of the alphanumeric printouts as necessary to satisfy state law; and I. include a feature to allow reports to be sent to an electronic data file. History: Laws 2010, ch. 28, § 5.