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IN Code § 3-11-15-13.3-b (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-13.3-b. Federal Voting System Standards; Use of Voting System With Expired Certification; Systems Required to Have Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail

     Note: This version of section effective 10-1-2021. See also preceding version of this section, effective until 10-1-2021.Sec. 13.3. (a) To be approved by the commission for use in Indiana, a voting system must meet one (1) of the following:(1) The Voting System Standards adopted by the Federal Election Commission on April 30, 2002.(2) The Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United States Election Assistance Commission on December 13, 2005.(3) The Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United States Election Assistance Commission, as amended on March 31, 2015.(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a county may continue to use an optical scan ballot card voting system or an electronic voting system whose approval or certification expired on or before October 1, 2021, if the voting system:(1) was:(A) approved by the commission for use in elections in Indiana before October 1, 2021; and(B) purchased or leased by the county before October 1, 2021; and(2) otherwise complies with the applicable provisions of HAVA and this article.However, a voting system vendor may not market, sell, lease, or install a voting system described in this subsection.(c) A county may not continue to use an electronic voting system after December 31, 2029, unless the:(1) system includes a voter verifiable paper audit trail; and(2) certification of that system by the commission has not expired.(d) As provided by 52 U.S.C. 21081, to be used in an election in Indiana, a voting system must be accessible for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation (including privacy and independence) as for other voters.(e) As provided by 52 U.S.C. 21081, an election board conducting an election satisfies the requirements of subsection (d) if the election board provides at least one (1) electronic voting system or other voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities at each polling place.(f) If a voter who is otherwise qualified to cast a ballot in a precinct chooses to cast the voter's ballot on the voting system provided under subsection (e), the voter must be allowed to cast the voter's ballot on that voting system, whether or not the voter is an individual with disabilities.As added by P.L.209-2003, SEC.164. Amended by P.L.221-2005, SEC.94; P.L.164-2006, SEC.118; P.L.120-2009, SEC.10; P.L.219-2013, SEC.51; P.L.128-2015, SEC.195; P.L.21-2016, SEC.21; P.L.71-2019, SEC.22; P.L.193-2021, SEC.59.
IN Code § 3-11-15-13.4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-13.4. Voting System and Voters With Disabilities

Sec. 13.4. (a) This section does not apply to the purchase, lease, or lease-purchase of additional or replacement components of a voting system in use in a county before January 1, 2005.(b) The commission shall determine whether a voting system provides a practical and effective means for voters with disabilities to cast ballots in private.(c) If the commission determines that any voting system meets the criteria described in subsection (b), a county may not purchase, lease, or lease-purchase any other voting system that does not meet the criteria described in subsection (b).As added by P.L.97-2004, SEC.10.
IN Code § 3-11-15-13.6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-13.6. Compliance With Standards for Disability Access

Sec. 13.6. (a) This section applies only to a voting system purchased with funds made available under Title II of HAVA (52 U.S.C. 20921 through 52 U.S.C. 21072) after December 31, 2006.(b) As required by 42 U.S.C. 15481, the voting system must comply with the Voting System Standards for disability access referred to in section 13.3 of this chapter and 52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(3) to be used in an election.As added by P.L.97-2004, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.128-2015, SEC.196.
IN Code § 3-11-15-13.7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-13.7. Requirements of Voting Systems to Indicate Overvotes

Sec. 13.7. (a) If a voting system has any of the following functions, the functions must be operable in the voting system's equipment actually in use in a precinct:(1) The voting system can demonstrate to the voter that the voter has cast votes for too many candidates for an office.(2) The voting system can demonstrate to the voter that the voter has cast votes both in favor of and in opposition to a public question.(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a voting system described in subsection (a) must be able to inform the voter how the voter may correct errors on the voter's ballot.(c) A voting system is not required to provide the information required by subsection (b) if the information is provided in writing conspicuously on or near the components of the voting system where the voter casts the voter's votes.As added by P.L.126-2002, SEC.76.
IN Code § 3-11-15-13.8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-13.8. Electronic Adjudication of Ballot Features

Sec. 13.8. A voting system certified for use under this chapter may include features to permit the use of electronic adjudication of ballots to review voter intent so long as:(1) the adjudication is conducted in compliance with Indiana law; and(2) the software is a part of the electronic management system (EMS) certified by the commission as part of the voting system.As added by P.L.193-2021, SEC.60.
IN Code § 3-11-15-13.9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-13.9. Validation of Testing Method

Sec. 13.9. A voting system must have a validation method approved by the commission as part of the certification of the voting system to ensure that the software is tested and that no uncertified software is present on the voting system. A vendor shall provide the instructions for use of the validation method to the entity designated under IC 3-11-16 to permit the entity to perform this validation before the voting system is certified under this chapter and at any time during the term of the certification of the voting system.As added by P.L.193-2021, SEC.61.
IN Code § 3-11-15-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-14. Ballot Counting Devices and Equipment; Verification

Sec. 14. In ballot card voting systems, each precinct ballot counting device, and all central counting equipment, must contain provisions for verifying:(1) its proper preparation for an election; and(2) that both the hardware and the software are functioning correctly.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-15. Ballot Counting Devices and Equipment; Tests and Diagnostic Procedures

Sec. 15. The tests and diagnostic procedures described in section 14 of this chapter:(1) may be executed manually or automatically; and(2) must allow for operator intervention to validate the proper execution of individually selected equipment functions.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-16. Electronic Voting System; Verification

Sec. 16. Each electronic voting system or vote recording and data processing device shall contain hardware and software provisions for verifying:(1) its proper preparation for an election; and(2) that both the hardware and the software are functioning correctly.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-17 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-17. Electronic Voting System; Tests and Diagnostic Procedures

Sec. 17. The tests and diagnostic procedures described in section 16 of this chapter:(1) may be carried out manually or automatically; and(2) must allow for operator intervention to validate the proper execution of individually selected equipment functions.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-20. Voting System; Accuracy

Sec. 20. (a) A voting system must be able to record accurately each vote and be able to produce an accurate report of all votes cast.(b) As used in this subsection, "error rate" refers to the error rate of the voting system in counting ballots (determined by taking into account only those errors that are attributable to the voting system and not attributable to an act of the voter). As required by 52 U.S.C. 21081, a voting system must comply with the error rate standards established under section 4.1.1 of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United States Election Assistance Commission, as amended on March 31, 2015.(c) The inclusion of control logic and data processing methods incorporating parity and check-sums (or equivalent error detection and correction methods) must demonstrate that the system has been designed for accuracy.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332. Amended by P.L.209-2003, SEC.166; P.L.128-2015, SEC.197; P.L.100-2018, SEC.8.
IN Code § 3-11-15-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-21. Voting System; Software

Sec. 21. Software used in a voting system must monitor the overall quality of data read-write and transfer quality status, checking the number and types of errors that occur in any of the relevant operations on data and how they were corrected.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-22 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-22. Ballot Card Voting System; Verification and Accuracy

Sec. 22. Ballot card voting systems must rely on the retention of ballots as a redundant means of verifying or auditing election results. As a means of assuring accuracy in electronic voting systems, the unit must incorporate multiple memories in the machine itself and in its programmable memory devices.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-23 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-23. Electronic Voting System; Preservation of Electronic Images of Ballots

Sec. 23. To attain a measure of integrity over the process, the electronic voting systems must also maintain an image of each ballot that is cast, such that records of individual ballots are maintained by a subsystem independent and distinct from the main vote detection, interpretation, processing, and reporting path. The electronic images of each ballot must protect the integrity of the data and the anonymity of each voter, for example, by means of storage location scrambling. The ballot image records may be either machine-readable or manually transcribed, or both, at the discretion of the vendor.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-24 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-24. Voting System; Status and Degree of Operability

Sec. 24. Ballot card voting and electronic voting systems must include built-in test, measurement, and diagnostic software, and hardware for detecting and reporting the system's status and degree of operability.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-25 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-25. Voting System; Recording and Reporting Capabilities

Sec. 25. A voting system must include capabilities of recording and reporting the date and time of normal and abnormal events and of maintaining a permanent record of audit information that cannot be turned off. A voting system must include provisions to detect and record significant events, such as casting a ballot, error conditions that cannot be disposed of by the system itself, or time-dependent or programmed events that occur without the intervention of the voter or a polling place operator.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-26 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-26. Ballot Counting Software

Sec. 26. The ballot counting software must be designed in a modular fashion and not be self-modifying. Modular programs must consist of code written in relatively small and easily identifiable sections, with each unit having a single entry point and a single exit point. Each module must have a specific function that can be tested and verified more or less independently of the remainder of the code.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332. Amended by P.L.219-2013, SEC.52.
IN Code § 3-11-15-33 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-33. Real-Time Monitoring of System Status and Data Quality

Sec. 33. The vendor shall provide for the real-time monitoring of system status and data quality. The election division (or the competent person designated by the commission to act on behalf of the election division) shall determine methods of assessment with the advice of a test authority. Implementation options include the following:(1) Hardware monitoring of redundant processing functions which are carried out in parallel or serially.(2) Statistical assessment and measures of system operation.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-34 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-34. Quality Assessment

Sec. 34. Measurement of the relative frequency of entry to program units and the frequency of exception conditions must be included as part of the quality assessment.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-36 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-36. Errors in Operations; Corrections

Sec. 36. Software used in all systems must monitor the overall quality of data read-write and transfer quality status, checking the number and types of errors that occur in any of the relevant operations on data and how the errors were corrected. If the total number of corrected errors exceeds a predetermined threshold, or if errors on any one (1) type occur repeatedly, then the operation of the affected device must be suspended until the condition generating the errors has been corrected. Any uncorrectable error must result in an immediate halt and provide an appropriate message to the voter or polling place official.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-37 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-37. Retention of Ballots for Verification of Election Results

Sec. 37. Ballot card voting systems must rely on the retention of ballots as a redundant means of verifying election results. As a means of assuring accuracy in electronic voting systems, the unit must incorporate multiple memories in the machine itself and in the unit's programmable memory devices. To attain a measure of integrity over the process, an electronic voting system must also maintain images of each ballot that is cast so that records of individual ballots are maintained by a subsystem independent and distinct from the main vote detection, diagnostic, processing, and reporting path.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-38 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-38. Stored Images of Ballots

Sec. 38. The stored images of each ballot must protect the integrity of the data and the anonymity of each voter by such means as storage location scrambling. The ballot image records may be either machine readable or manually transcribed, or both, at the discretion of the vendor.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-39 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-39. Firmware Instructions; Undervoting Permitted

Sec. 39. The electronic voting system firmware instructions must contain necessary logical instructions to determine correct recording of each and every candidate or public question selection made by the voter to the appropriate memory registers and tables. In the case of a partially voted ballot, deliberate undervoting by a voter must be permitted. This undervoting must be validated by machine determination that particular candidate or public question selections have not been made. In cases where a selected candidate or vote on a public question is not recording correctly upon casting of the ballot, the electronic voting system equipment must generate an error signal and automatically stop operation of the machine until the problem is resolved.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-40 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-40. Reconciliation of Sum of Selections and Undervotes

Sec. 40. After every ballot is cast, a reconciliation of the sum of selections and undervotes must occur. The undervotes may not be generated as a default but must be generated as the result of scanning the ballot as the ballot is cast.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-41 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-41. Status Messages

Sec. 41. Status messages must become part of the real-time audit record. Latitude in software design is necessary so that consideration can be given to various user processing and reporting needs. The user shall require status and information messages to be displayed and reported in real-time.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-42 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-42. Status Messages; Display

Sec. 42. Depending on the critical nature of the message, and the particular jurisdiction's needs, status messages shall preferably be displayed and reported by suitable, unambiguous indicators or English language text. Noncritical status messages may be displayed if the message does not require operator intervention by means of numerical codes, for subsequent interpretation and reporting as ambiguous text.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.
IN Code § 3-11-15-43 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 3. Elections|Article 11. Voting Methods, Supplies, and Equipment|Chapter 15. Ballot Card and Electronic Voting Systems; Additional Standards and Procedures for Approving System Changes|3-11-15-43. Audit Record; Ability of Voter to Change Vote Before Ballot Cast

Sec. 43. (a) The audit record provisions in this chapter are essential to the complete recording of election operations and reporting of the vote tally. This list of audit records must reflect all of the idiosyncrasies of a system.(b) As required by 52 U.S.C. 21081, the voting system must:(1) produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for the system; and(2) provide the voter with an opportunity to change the ballot or correct any error before the permanent paper record is produced.(c) The paper record produced under subsection (b) must be made available as an official record for a recount or contest conducted with respect to any election in which the voting system was used.As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332. Amended by P.L.209-2003, SEC.168; P.L.128-2015, SEC.198.