California Elections Code 19207.5 – (a) An elections official or the governing body of any …
(a) An elections official or the governing body of any jurisdiction that administers elections shall use a voting machine, as defined in Section 361, or a voting system, as defined in Section 362, that has been certified pursuant to this division, to do all of the following:
(1) Provide sufficient numbers of voting machines or voting systems for accessibility pursuant to Section 19242 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. § 20901 et seq.).
Terms Used In California Elections Code 19207.5
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Elections official: means any of the following:
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- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Voting machine: means any electronic device, including, but not limited to, a precinct optical scanner and a direct recording voting system, into which a voter may enter his or her votes, and which, by means of electronic tabulation and generation of printouts or other tangible, human-readable records, furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for each candidate and for or against each measure. See California Elections Code 361
- Voting system: means a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic system and its software, or any combination of these used for casting a ballot, tabulating votes, or both. See California Elections Code 362
(2) Tabulate votes.
(b) If a jurisdiction that administers elections terminates a contract for an existing certified voting system, that termination shall be provisional and shall not become final unless and until the jurisdiction that administers elections has satisfied all of the following:
(1) The jurisdiction has a plan to transition to a new voting system that will ensure compliance with applicable state and federal laws.
(2) The jurisdiction has finalized and signed a new contract for a certified voting system.
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 300, Sec. 4. (AB 969) Effective October 4, 2023.)