Arkansas Code Title 7, Chapter 5, Subchapter 5 - Voting Machines

• § 7-5-501 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-502 - Application of Election Laws and Penalties.
  All laws of this state applicable to elections where voting is done in any manner other than by machines and all penalties prescribed for...
• § 7-5-503 - Examination and Approval of Machines by State Board of Election Commissioners.
  (a) Any person or corporation selling voting machines may apply to exhibit machines to the State Board of Election Commissioners.(b) The state board shall...
• § 7-5-504 - Machine Specifications.
  No make of voting machine shall be approved for use unless it is so constructed that: (1) It will ensure secrecy to the voter...
• § 7-5-505, 7-5-506 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-507 - Demonstration -- Assistance in Operating Machine.
  (a) (1) The manufacturer shall demonstrate the machine to the county election officials prior to the first election at which the machines are placed...
• § 7-5-508 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-509 - Machines Used for Demonstration.
  (a) (1) The county board of election commissioners may designate suitable times and places where voting machines shall be exhibited for the purpose of...
• § 7-5-510 - Forms for Complaints About Function of Voting Machine -- Investigation.
  (a) At each polling place at which voting machines are used, the county board of election commissioners shall provide forms that voters may use...
• § 7-5-511 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-512 - Certification of Ballot Styles -- Equipment Furnished to Polling Sites.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the county board of election commissioners to prepare and certify the ballot styles for the voting machine.(b)...
• § 7-5-513 - Machine Breakdown -- Delivery of Ballot Materials.
  The county board of election commissioners in any county in which voting machines are to be used shall be ready at any time on...
• § 7-5-514 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-515 - Preparation of Machines for Election -- Logic and Accuracy Testing and Public Testing.
  (a) Immediately upon the proper certification of candidates and questions, the county board of election commissioners shall prepare the voting machines, oversee their programming,...
• § 7-5-516 - Notice to Candidates of Preparation -- Rules and Statutes Unaffected.
  Before the county board of election commissioners begins the preparation of the machines for any election, it shall publish a notice in a newspaper...
• § 7-5-517 - Securing Machines -- Certification.
  (a) When a voting machine has been properly prepared by the county board of election commissioners and examined by the representatives of the candidates...
• § 7-5-518 - Machines Inactivated Until Polls Open -- Adjustment of Counters.
  (a) The voting machine shall remain inactivated against voting until the polls are formally opened and shall not be operated except by voters for...
• § 7-5-519 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-520 - Instructions for Voters Using Voting Machines.
  During the election, each voter shall be instructed regarding the operation of voting machines before voting. The voter's attention shall also be called to...
• § 7-5-521 - Arrangement of Polling Place.
  (a) The exterior of the voting machine and every part of the polling place shall be in plain view of the poll workers.(b) The...
• § 7-5-522 - Voting Procedure.
  (a) (1) When a voter presents himself or herself for the purpose of voting, the poll workers shall ascertain whether he or she is...
• § 7-5-523 - [Repealed.]
• § 7-5-524 - Voter Access to Machines -- Persons in Line At Closing Time.
  (a) During the time that the polls are open for voting, no more voters shall be permitted to approach the voting machine than there...
• § 7-5-525 - Write-In Votes.
  (a) Votes for any person whose name does not appear on the voting machine as a qualified candidate for office are referred to in...
• § 7-5-526 - Closing of Polls -- Securing Machines -- Poll Workers' Certificate.
  (a) At the official time for closing the polls and upon termination of the voting, the poll workers shall announce that the polls have...
• § 7-5-527 - Exposure of Count -- Verification -- Return Record -- Official Signatures.
  (a) The poll workers shall then expose the count in the presence of all persons authorized to be present.(b) It is the intention of...
• § 7-5-528 - Machines Released to Officers.
  Voting machines shall be released to a person designated by the county board of election commissioners for storage in a secure facility designated by...
• § 7-5-529 - Tabulation of Returns.
  (a) The county board of election commissioners shall compile countywide totals from the activation pack or device used to collect votes from each voting...
• § 7-5-530 - Securing Audit Materials Upon Election Contest or Recount.
  (a) The county board of election commissioners shall produce an audit log for each voting machine used in the election.(b) In the event that...
• § 7-5-531 - Retention of Audit Data -- Machines to Remain Secured Until Results are Certified Except on Court Order.
  (a) All audit logs and voter-verified paper audit trails produced by a voting machine shall remain secured for a period of two (2) years.(b)...
• § 7-5-532 - Direct-Recording Electronic Voting Machines.
  (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...

Last modified: November 15, 2016