California Elections Code ARTICLE 1 - Procedures for Certification of Voting Systems

• Section 19200.
  The Secretary of State shall not approve any voting system, or part of a voting system, unless it fulfills the requirements of this code and...
• Section 19201.
  (a) The Secretary of State may grant conditional approval to a voting system or part of a voting system under either of the following circumstances:(1) A voting...
• Section 19202.
  (a) Except as authorized by Section 19209, a voting system, in whole or in part, shall not be used unless it has been certified or conditionally...
• Section 19203.
  The Secretary of State shall not certify or conditionally approve a voting system or a part of a voting system that uses paper ballots unless...
• Section 19204.
  The Secretary of State shall not certify or conditionally approve any voting system that includes features that permit a voter to produce, and leave the...
• Section 19204.5.
  (a) The Secretary of State shall not certify or conditionally approve a voting system that cannot facilitate the conduct of a ballot level comparison risk-limiting audit.(b) (1) For...
• Section 19205.
  A voting system shall comply with all of the following:(a) No part of the voting system shall be connected to the Internet at any time.(b) No part...
• Section 19206.
  Except as authorized by Section 19209, both of the following apply:(a) If more than one voting system is used to count ballots, the names of candidates...
• Section 19207.
  The governing board may adopt for use at elections any kind of voting system, any combination of voting systems, or any combination of a voting...
• Section 19208.
  The governing board may provide for the payment of the cost of the voting system equipment in any manner and by any method as it...
• Section 19209.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Commercial off-the-shelf” means mass-produced, readily available hardware devices, including card readers, printers, or personal...
• Section 19210.
  (a) A person, corporation, or public agency owning or having an interest in the sale or acquisition of a voting system or a part of a...
• Section 19211.
  (a) Prior to publishing his or her decision to certify, conditionally approve, or withhold certification of a voting system or part of a voting system, the...
• Section 19212.
  (a) (1) No later than 10 business days after the Secretary of State certifies or conditionally approves the use of a new or updated voting system, the...
• Section 19213.
  Within 60 days after the completion of the examination of a voting system, the Secretary of State shall make publicly available a report stating whether...
• Section 19214.
  Within 10 days after issuing and filing a certification decision and associated testing reports, the Secretary of State shall make available to the public a...
• Section 19215.
  (a) If a voting system or a part of a voting system has been certified or conditionally approved by the Secretary of State or has been...
• Section 19216.
  If a voting system or a part of a voting system has been certified or conditionally approved by the Secretary of State, it shall not...
• Section 19217.
  The Secretary of State may seek injunctive and administrative relief if a voting system or a part of a voting system has been compromised by...
• Section 19218.
  (a) The Secretary of State may seek all of the following relief for an unauthorized change in hardware, software, or firmware in a voting system certified...
• Section 19219.
  (a) The Secretary of State may seek injunctive relief requiring an elections official, or any vendor or manufacturer of a voting machine, voting system, or vote...

Last modified: October 22, 2018