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7-5-532. Direct-recording electronic voting machines — Definitions.
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7-5-532. Direct-recording electronic voting machines — Definitions.
(a) For purposes of this section:
(1) “Direct-recording electronic voting machine” means a voting machine that:
(A) Records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that may be actuated by the voter;
(B) Processes the data by means of a computer program;
(C) Records voting data and ballot images in internal or external memory components; and
(D) Produces a tabulation of the voting data stored in a removable memory component and in a printed copy; and
(2) “Voter-verified paper audit trail” means a contemporaneous paper record of a ballot printed for the voter to confirm his or her votes before the voter casts his or her ballot.
(b) The Secretary of State or the county shall not purchase or procure a direct-recording electronic voting machine that does not include a voter-verified paper audit trail.
(c)(1) All direct-recording electronic voting machines in use on or after January 1, 2006, shall include a voter-verified paper audit trail, except for those direct-recording electronic voting machines in use during the 2004 general election.
(2) All direct-recording electronic voting machines purchased on or after August 12, 2005, shall include a voter-verified paper audit trail.
(d) A direct-recording electronic voting machine with a voter-verified paper audit trail shall meet the following conditions:
(1) The voter-verified paper audit trail may be verified by the voter before the casting of the voter's ballot;
(2) The voter-verified paper audit trail shall not be retained by the voter;
(3) The voter-verified paper audit trail shall not contain individual voter information;
(4) The paper used in producing the voter-verified paper
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 7-5-532
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7-5-532. Direct-recording electronic voting machines — Definitions.
(a) For purposes of this section:
(1) “Direct-recording electronic voting machine” means a voting machine that:
(A) Records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that may be actuated by the voter;
(B) Processes the data by means of a computer program;
(C) Records voting data and ballot images in internal or external memory components; and
(D) Produces a tabulation of the voting data stored in a removable memory component and in a printed copy; and
(2) “Voter-verified paper audit trail” means a contemporaneous paper record of a ballot printed for the voter to confirm his or her votes before the voter casts his or her ballot.
(b) The Secretary of State or the county shall not purchase or procure a direct-recording electronic voting machine that does not include a voter-verified paper audit trail.
(c)(1) All direct-recording electronic voting machines in use on or after January 1, 2006, shall include a voter-verified paper audit trail, except for those direct-recording electronic voting machines in use during the 2004 general election.
(2) All direct-recording electronic voting machines purchased on or after August 12, 2005, shall include a voter-verified paper audit trail.
(d) A direct-recording electronic voting machine with a voter-verified paper audit trail shall meet the following conditions:
(1) The voter-verified paper audit trail may be verified by the voter before the casting of the voter's ballot;
(2) The voter-verified paper audit trail shall not be retained by the voter;
(3) The voter-verified paper audit trail shall not contain individual voter information;
(4) The paper used in producing the voter-verified paper audit trail shall be sturdy, clean, and resistant to degradation; and
(5) The voter-verified paper audit trail shall be readable in a manner that makes the voter's ballot choices obvious to the voter without the use of computer or electronic code.
(e) Voter-verified paper audit trails shall be preserved in the same manner and for the same time period that ballots and certificates are preserved under § 7-5-702.
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7-5-702. Preservation of ballots, stubs, certificates, and other election materials.
(a) After the election has been finally certified by the county board of election commissioners, the county board of election commissioners shall retain the custody of and safely keep in a sealed container appropriately marked in a secure location in the county courthouse or other county storage facility all ballots, ballot stubs, and certificates returned to it from the several precincts for a period of twenty (20) days, after which time the ballots and certificates shall be stored in a secure location in the county courthouse or other county storage facility for a period of two (2) years from the date of the election, unless the county board of election commissioners shall be sooner notified in writing that:
(1) The election of some person voted for at the election and declared to have been elected has been contested;
(2) Criminal prosecution has begun before a tribunal of competent jurisdiction against any officer of election or person voting thereat for any fraud in the election; or
(3) The results of the election will be audited by the State Board of Election Commissioners under § 7-4-121.
(b) If the county board of election commissioners is notified as provided in subsection (a) of this section, then so many of the ballots and certificates as may relate to matters involved in the contest or any prosecution shall be preserved for use as evidence in the contest or prosecution.
(c) During the time the ballots may be retained or stored, the package containing them shall not be opened by anyone unless:
(1) Directed to do so by some competent tribunal before which an election contest or prosecution is pending in which the ballots are to be used as evidence; or
(2) Upon w
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 7-5-702
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 7-5-702. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.