California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 7 - Secretary of State › Chapter 6.2 - Procedures and Standards for Reviewing Voting Systems, Parts of a Voting System, and Ballot Marking Devices for Certification or Conditional Approval › Section 20701 - Application

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Any person,
				corporation, or public agency owning or having an interest in the sale or
				acquisition of a voting system or part of a voting system may apply to the
				Secretary of State for certification of such system. The application shall be
				in writing, on a form supplied by the Secretary of State, and shall include the
				following information:
(1) Information about
				the applicant, including name, address, telephone number, and business address,
				if applicable;
(2) Information
				about the voting system including, but not limited to, software and firmware
				version numbers;
(3) A signed
				confidentiality agreement providing the Secretary of State, upon demand, source
				code for all software and firmware and a working model of the voting
				system;
(4) A signed letter
				providing that the Secretary of State may receive all reports, testing
				documentation and trusted build installation disks directly from the
				appropriate federal Voting System Testing Laboratory (VSTL) who tested the
				voting system under the federal Election Assistance Commission's (EAC) or its
				successor entity's Voting System Testing and Certification process, if
				applicable;
(5) Final VSTL test
				reports, if applicable, for the voting system;
(6) Documentation showing that the voting
				system is federally qualified, if applicable;
(7) A list of all commercial off the shelf
				(COTS) software, firmware and hardware that is either recommended or required
				to install, operate, and/or provide maintenance support for the
				system;
(8) System configurations,
				option settings and definition parameters for all software, firmware and
				hardware (including COTS);
(9) A
				directory listing of program, data, and support files required to install,
				configure, operate, and/or provide supplemental support for the voting
				system;
(10) A description of known
				defects, faults or failures as defined in Elections Code section
				19210,
				outstanding bugs, security vulnerabilities or other limitations of the system
				and any mitigations for each;
(11)
				A detailed network diagram of what components are connected or related and how
				they are connected;
(12) Use
				Procedures for the voting system;
(13) Photographs of the voting
				system;
(14) A list of
				jurisdictional users who use the exact version of the voting system being
				submitted;
(15) A list of
				California jurisdictional users who are using a predecessor version of the
				voting system being submitted;
(16)
				All financial relationships between the applicant and the manufacturer,
				distributor, or retailer of the various components comprising the voting
				system;
(17) All the documentation
				necessary for the identification of the full system configuration submitted for
				evaluation and for the development of an appropriate test plan for conducting
				system certification testing, collectively referred to as the Technical Data
				Package (TDP) and as set forth in the "California Voting System Standards
				(October 2014)." The TDP provides information that defines the voting system
				design, method of operation, and related resources. It provides a system
				overview and documents the system's functionality, hardware, software,
				security, test and verification specifications, operations procedures,
				maintenance procedures, and personnel deployment and training requirements;
				and
(18) Any additional information
				the Secretary of State may request on an as-needed basis from the
				applicant.