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Ch. 101 VOTING METHODS AND PROCEDURE F.S. 2012
<br /> department shall suspend all sales of the equipment or (15) It does not use an apparatus or device for the
<br /> system in the state until the equipment or system piercing of ballots by the voter.
<br /> complies with the requirements of this act. History-5.6,ch.73-156;s.21,ch.77-175;s.10,ch.84-302;s.10,ch.89-348;
<br /> s.578,ch.95-147;s.17,ch.99-318;s.18,ch.2001-40;s.10,ch.2002-17;s.35,ch.
<br /> w. (4) The Department of State may at any time 2005-277;S.32,ch.2011-40.
<br /> reexamine any system, or any part thereof, which has
<br /> previously been approved for the purpose of updating 101.56062 Standards for accessible voting sys-
<br /> the certification of the system. tems.—
<br /> History.—s.5,ch.73-156;s.21,ch.77-175;s.9,ch.84-302;s.12,ch.85-80;s. (1) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the
<br /> 9,ch.89-348;s.577,ch.95-147;s.31,ch.2011-40. contrary, each voting system certified by the Depart-
<br /> ment of State for use in local, state, and federal
<br /> 101.5606 Requirements for approval of sys- elections must include the capability to install accessible
<br /> terns.—No electronic or electromechanical voting sys- voter interface devices in the system configuration
<br /> tem shall be approved by the Department of State which will allow the system to meet the following
<br /> unless it is so constructed that: minimum standards:
<br /> (1) It permits and requires voting in secrecy. (a) The voting system must provide a tactile input or
<br /> (2) It permits each elector to vote at any election for audio input device, or both.
<br /> all persons and offices for whom and for which the (b) The voting system must provide a method by
<br /> elector is lawfully entitled to vote, and no others;to vote which voters can confirm any tactile or audio input by
<br /> for as many persons for an office as the elector is having the capability of audio output using synthetic or
<br /> entitled to vote for; and to vote for or against any recorded human speech that is reasonably phonetically
<br /> question upon which the elector is entitled to vote. accurate.
<br /> (3) It immediately rejects a ballot where the number (c) Any operable controls on the input device which
<br /> of votes for an office or measure exceeds the number are needed for voters who are visually impaired must be
<br /> which the voter is entitled to cast or where the tabulating discernible tactilely without actuating the keys.
<br /> equipment reads the ballot as a ballot with no votes (d) Audio and visual access approaches must be
<br /> cast. able to work both separately and simultaneously.
<br /> (4) For systems using marksense ballots, it accepts (e) If a nonaudio access approach is provided, the
<br /> a rejected ballot pursuant to subsection (3) if a voter system may not require color perception. The system
<br /> chooses to cast the ballot, but records no vote for any must use black text or graphics, or both, on white
<br /> office that has been overvoted or undervoted. background or white text or graphics, or both, on black
<br /> (5) It is capable of correctly counting votes. background, unless the office of the Secretary of State
<br /> NOW (6) It permits each voter at a primary election to vote approves other high-contrast color combinations that do
<br /> not require color perception.
<br /> only for the candidates seeking nomination by the (f) Any voting system that requires any visual
<br /> political party in which such voter is registered, for perception must offer the election official who programs
<br /> any candidate for nonpartisan office, and for any the system, prior to its being sent to the polling place,
<br /> question upon which the voter is entitled to vote. the capability to set the font size, as it appears to the
<br /> (7) At presidential elections it permits each elector, voter,from a minimum of 14 points to a maximum of 24
<br /> by one operation,to vote for all presidential electors of a points.
<br /> party or for all presidential electors of candidates for (g) The voting system must provide audio informa-
<br /> President and Vice President with no party affiliation. tion, including any audio output using synthetic or
<br /> (8) It provides a method for write-in voting. recorded human speech or any auditory feedback
<br /> (9) It is capable of accumulating a count of the tones that are important for the use of the audio
<br /> specific number of ballots tallied for a precinct, accu- approach, through at least one mode, by handset or
<br /> mulating total votes by candidate for each office, and headset, in enhanced auditory fashion (increased
<br /> accumulating total votes for and against each question amplification), and must provide incremental volume
<br /> and issue of the ballots tallied for a precinct. control with output amplification up to a level of at least
<br /> (10) It is capable of tallying votes from ballots of 97 dB SPL.
<br /> different political parties from the same precinct, in the (h) For transmitted voice signals to the voter, the
<br /> case of a primary election. voting system must provide a gain adjustable up to a
<br /> (11) It is capable of automatically producing precinct minimum of 20 dB with at least one intermediate step of
<br /> totals in printed form. 12 dB of gain.
<br /> (i) For the safety of others, if the voting system has
<br /> (12) If it is of a type which registers votes electro- the possibility of exceeding 120 dB SPL, then a
<br /> nically, it will permit each voter to change his or her vote mechanism must be included to reset the volume
<br /> for any candidate or upon any question appearing on automatically to the voting system's default volume
<br /> the official ballot up to the time that the voter takes the level after every use, for example when the handset is
<br /> final step to register his or her vote and to have the vote replaced, but not before. Also, universal precautions in
<br /> computed. the use and sharing of headsets should be followed.
<br /> (13) It is capable of providing records from which the (j) If sound cues and audible information such as
<br /> operation of the voting system may be audited. "beeps" are used, there must be simultaneous corre-
<br /> (-14) It uses a precinct-count tabulation system. sponding visual cues and information.
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