Florida Administrative Code › 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › 1S - Division of Elections › Chapter 1S-2 - ELECTIONS › Section 1S-2.015 - Minimum Security Procedures for Voting Systems

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
PURPOSE.
To establish
				minimum security standards for voting systems pursuant to Section
				 101.015(4),
				F.S.
(2)
DEFINITIONS.
The following words and phrases shall be construed as follows when used in this
				rule:
(a) "Accumulation" means the act of
				combining tabulated votes from different sources for the same candidate or
				ballot measure. For example, accumulation of counted votes for a specific
				candidate occurs when the early voting and vote-by-mail ballot groups are
				combined with Election Day votes for the candidate. Another example is when the
				combined precinct results for a specific candidate on Election Day are
				totaled.
(b) "Ballot" when used in
				reference to:
1. "Marksense ballot" means that
				printed sheet of paper, used in conjunction with an electronic or
				electromechanical vote tabulation voting system, containing the names of
				candidates, or a statement of proposed constitutional amendments or other
				questions or propositions submitted to the electorate at any election, on which
				sheet of paper an elector casts his or her vote.
2. "Electronic or electromechanical device"
				means a ballot that is voted by the process of electronically designating,
				including by touchscreen, or marking with a marking device for tabulation by
				automatic tabulating equipment or data processing
				equipment.
(c) "Ballot
				type" means an early voting, Election Day, or vote-by-mail ballot. Provisional
				ballots cast in the election may be grouped with early voting, Election Day, or
				vote-by-mail ballots, as applicable. Overseas vote-by-mail ballots are to be
				grouped with other vote-by-mail ballots.
(d) "Election Board" has the meaning ascribed
				in Section  97.021(12),
				F.S.
(e) "Election definition"
				means the voting system tabulator's code programmed for a unique
				election.
(f) "Election management
				system" means those components of a voting system that defines, develops, and
				maintains election databases, performs election definitions and setup
				functions, formats ballots, acquires the tabulation results, consolidates the
				aggregate election results, produces report results, and maintains its audit
				trails.
(g) "Election materials"
				mean those materials provided to poll workers to properly conduct the election
				to include, but not be limited to, as applicable, legally required affidavits
				and forms, provisional ballots, voter authority slips, precinct registers, and
				any electronic devices necessary to activate ballot styles in the voting
				system.
(h) "Hybrid voting system"
				means an electronic or electromechanical device by which a voter with
				disabilities interacts with an electronic visual display to produce a paper
				output that contains the contest titles and the voter's selections, and may
				also contain, but not be limited to, a barcode or other machine-readable
				optical label containing the voter's selections. A hybrid voting system may be
				designed to read the vote targets or selections or the machine-readable optical
				label on the paper output.
(i)
				"Tabulation" means the act of a tabulator (e.g., optical scanner) counting the
				voter selections for candidates or ballot measures. The tabulator scans the
				voter selections on a ballot or paper output from a hybrid voting system and
				determines the vote count for the candidate or ballot measure.
(j) "Voted Ballot" means a ballot as defined
				above, which has been cast by an elector.
(k) "Voting device" means any apparatus by
				which votes are registered electronically.
(l) "Voting system" means a method of casting
				and processing votes that functions wholly or partly by use of
				electromechanical or electronic apparatus or by use of marksense ballots or
				paper outputs from a hybrid voting system and includes, but is not limited to,
				the procedures for casting and processing votes and the programs, operating
				manuals, supplies, printouts, and other software necessary for the system's
				operation.