Sec.9-241-27. Software standards. Audit trails

The system shall be capable of the following: (1) detecting and reporting its status and degree of operability by means of diagnostic software and hardware, (2) detecting and reporting the identification of the election and polling place for which it has been programmed and the identification of the specific ballot which has been installed in it, (3) detecting, monitoring, and reporting the proper execution of initialization procedures performed prior to the opening of the polling place and the initiating of ballot counting operations, (4) detecting and reporting the procedure associated with the opening and closing of the polling place, (5) detecting and reporting the enabling of a ballot, the selection of a party in a primary, the exclusion of a portion of the ballot according to jurisdictional entitlement of a specific voter, other functions required for compatibility with the voter's affiliation and residence location, and (6) detecting and recording significant events such as the casting of a ballot, submitting a ballot for counting in a voting district count device, starting and completing a central count in the voting district and an error condition which cannot be disposed of by the system itself.

(Effective January 21, 1994)