2006 Minnesota Statutes

206.845 BALLOT RECORDING AND COUNTING SECURITY.
    Subdivision 1. Prohibited connections. The county auditor and municipal clerk must secure
ballot recording and tabulating systems physically and electronically against unauthorized access.
Except for wired connections within the polling place, ballot recording and tabulating systems
must not be connected to or operated on, directly or indirectly, any electronic network, including
a local area network, a wide-area network, the Internet, or the World Wide Web. Wireless
communications may not be used in any way in a vote recording or vote tabulating system.
Wireless, device-to-device capability is not permitted. No connection by modem is permitted.
Transfer of information from the ballot recording or tabulating system to another system
for network distribution or broadcast must be made by disk, tape, or other physical means
of communication, other than direct or indirect electronic connection of the vote recording or
vote tabulating system.
    Subd. 2. Transmission to central reporting location. After the close of the polls, the head
election judge must create a printed record of the results of the election for that precinct. After the
record has been printed, the head election judge in a precinct that employs automatic tabulating
equipment may transmit the accumulated tally for each device to a central reporting location using
a telephone, modem, Internet, or other electronic connection. During the canvassing period, the
results transmitted electronically must be considered unofficial until the canvassing board has
performed a complete reconciliation of the results.
History: 2005 c 162 s 27