California Elections Code ARTICLE 2 - Automated Count in a Central Location

• Section 15200.
  If paper ballots are used in conjunction with this system, counting shall be as provided in Article 5 (commencing with Section 15270) and Article 6...
• Section 15201.
  (a) As soon as the polls are closed, the precinct board shall, in the presence of the public do all of the following:(1) Seal the container used...
• Section 15202.
  If the ballots are to be counted at a central counting place, no fewer than two precinct board members shall, following the close of the...
• Section 15203.
  The vote tabulating device may be located at any place within the state approved by the elections official of the county or other political subdivision...
• Section 15204.
  All proceedings at the central counting place, or counting places, if applicable, shall be open to the view of the public but no person, except...
• Section 15205.
  (a) A person may be employed to count, tally, and certify the ballots if he or she is not a candidate at the election and if...
• Section 15206.
  The elections official or any deputy authorized by the elections official may excuse or dismiss any person from any counting board and enforce the order.(Added...
• Section 15207.
  The elections official or authorized deputy shall segregate the persons employed to count the ballots into counting boards. These counting boards shall be deemed to...
• Section 15208.
  (a) Each container of ballots shall be opened and its contents removed. The ballots shall be checked to ascertain if the ballots are properly grouped and...
• Section 15209.
  Any magnetic or electronic storage medium used for the ballot tabulation program and any magnetic or electronic storage medium containing election results shall be kept...
• Section 15210.
  In preparing the voted ballots for processing, any ballot that is torn, bent, or otherwise defective shall be corrected so that every vote cast by...
• Section 15211.
  If paper ballots are used for vote by mail voting, the canvass may be conducted in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 15000), or...
• Section 15212.
  If voting at all precincts within a county is not conducted using the same voting system, the result as to the precincts not subject to...
• Section 15213.
  In case of an emergency in which it becomes impossible to transport the ballots from the precinct to a central counting place, the elections official...

Last modified: October 22, 2018