Title 3, ELECTIONS

Sec. 13. Whenever an applicant completes a voter registration application under this chapter, the office shall provide the applicant with a written acknowledgment that the applicant has completed a voter registration application at the office. The acknowledgment: (1) may be a det…

Sec. 14. An applicant who completes a voter registration application under section 4 of this chapter is not required to submit the application to a circuit court clerk or board of registration member. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.2-1996, SEC.19.

Sec. 15. Voter registration information received or maintained by an office under this chapter is confidential and may be used only for voter registration purposes as provided in this article and 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(7). As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.128-2015, SEC…

Sec. 16. Unless the applicant refuses to permit the office to transmit the form to the circuit court clerk or board of registration of the county where the applicant resides, the office shall forward the voter registration application to the clerk or board not later than five (5)…

Sec. 17. A signed application under section 4 of this chapter authorizes a circuit court clerk or board of registration to update the voter registration record of the applicant. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.24.

Sec. 18. The circuit court clerk or board of registration shall, upon receiving a completed application under section 16 of this chapter, notify the applicant of the disposition of the application in the manner prescribed under IC 3-7-33 and as required under 52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(2…

Sec. 2. The general assembly finds that the following offices in Indiana provide public assistance within the scope of NVRA: (1) Each county office established under IC 12-19-1-1 that administers: (A) the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) under IC 12-14; or (…

Sec. 3. As provided in 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(4)(A)(i) and 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(6)(A), an office listed in section 2 of this chapter shall distribute a voter registration form prescribed under section 4 of this chapter to each applicant for public assistance whenever the applicant: (1)…

Sec. 4. The election division shall prescribe the design of the registration form for each office listed in section 2 of this chapter. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.3-1997, SEC.56; P.L.169-2015, SEC.19.

Sec. 5. (a) The registration form prescribed under section 4 of this chapter must meet the following requirements: (1) The form must be equivalent to the mail registration form prescribed by the election division under IC 3-7-31 and in compliance with 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(6)(A)(ii)…

Sec. 6. If the form used by an applicant to decline to register to vote is on a separate form from the voter registration application, the declination form must contain the following: (1) A statement reading "If you decline to register to vote, this is confidential, and can only …

Sec. 7. An applicant who fails to check either box described in section 5(a)(3) of this chapter or to sign a separate declination form under section 6 of this chapter shall be considered to have declined to register. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.65-2024, SEC.5.

Sec. 8. To register under this chapter, an individual must do the following while on the premises of the office: (1) Complete the voter registration application prescribed under section 4 of this chapter. (2) Present the application to an employee of the office. As added by P.L.1…

Sec. 9. An employee of the office who provides an individual with an application for assistance or services under section 3 of this chapter shall do the following: (1) Inform each individual who applies for assistance or services that the information the individual provides on th…

Sec. 1. Except as otherwise provided, this chapter applies to any election in Indiana where voting is by means of a ballot card or electronic voting system. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.

Sec. 12. Each application under this chapter must be in writing on a form prescribed by the election division and must comply with the requirements of this chapter. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332. Amended by P.L.169-2015, SEC.133.

Sec. 13.1. (a) If a voting system has the capability, the voting system must display on the medium used by the voter to cast the voter's ballot the name of each candidate. (b) A county election board or a board of elections and registration may require a voting system to display …

Sec. 13.3. (a) To be approved by the commission for use in Indiana, a voting system must meet one (1) of the following: (1) The Voting System Standards adopted by the Federal Election Commission on April 30, 2002. (2) The Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United S…

Sec. 13.4. (a) This section does not apply to the purchase, lease, or lease-purchase of additional or replacement components of a voting system in use in a county before January 1, 2005. (b) The commission shall determine whether a voting system provides a practical and effective…

Sec. 13.6. (a) This section applies only to a voting system purchased with funds made available under Title II of HAVA (52 U.S.C. 20921 through 52 U.S.C. 21072) after December 31, 2006. (b) As required by 42 U.S.C. 15481, the voting system must comply with the Voting System Stand…

Sec. 13.7. (a) If a voting system has any of the following functions, the functions must be operable in the voting system's equipment actually in use in a precinct: (1) The voting system can demonstrate to the voter that the voter has cast votes for too many candidates for an off…

Sec. 13.8. A voting system certified for use under this chapter may include features to permit the use of electronic adjudication of ballots to review voter intent so long as: (1) the adjudication is conducted in compliance with Indiana law; and (2) the software is a part of the …

Sec. 13.9. A voting system must have a validation method approved by the commission as part of the certification of the voting system to ensure that the software is tested and that no uncertified software is present on the voting system. A vendor shall provide the instructions fo…

Sec. 14. In ballot card voting systems, each precinct ballot counting device, and all central counting equipment, must contain provisions for verifying: (1) its proper preparation for an election; and (2) that both the hardware and the software are functioning correctly. As added…

Sec. 15. The tests and diagnostic procedures described in section 14 of this chapter: (1) may be executed manually or automatically; and (2) must allow for operator intervention to validate the proper execution of individually selected equipment functions. As added by P.L.3-1997,…

Sec. 16. Each electronic voting system or vote recording and data processing device shall contain hardware and software provisions for verifying: (1) its proper preparation for an election; and (2) that both the hardware and the software are functioning correctly. As added by P.L…

Sec. 17. The tests and diagnostic procedures described in section 16 of this chapter: (1) may be carried out manually or automatically; and (2) must allow for operator intervention to validate the proper execution of individually selected equipment functions. As added by P.L.3-19…

Sec. 2. The performance and test standards and fees under this chapter apply to an optical scan voting system or an electronic voting system described in IC 3-11-7 or IC 3-11-7.5. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332. Amended by P.L.221-2005, SEC.92.

Sec. 20. (a) A voting system must be able to record accurately each vote and be able to produce an accurate report of all votes cast. (b) As used in this subsection, "error rate" refers to the error rate of the voting system in counting ballots (determined by taking into account …

Sec. 21. Software used in a voting system must monitor the overall quality of data read-write and transfer quality status, checking the number and types of errors that occur in any of the relevant operations on data and how they were corrected. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.

Sec. 22. Ballot card voting systems must rely on the retention of ballots as a redundant means of verifying or auditing election results. As a means of assuring accuracy in electronic voting systems, the unit must incorporate multiple memories in the machine itself and in its pro…

Sec. 23. To attain a measure of integrity over the process, the electronic voting systems must also maintain an image of each ballot that is cast, such that records of individual ballots are maintained by a subsystem independent and distinct from the main vote detection, interpre…

Sec. 24. Ballot card voting and electronic voting systems must include built-in test, measurement, and diagnostic software, and hardware for detecting and reporting the system's status and degree of operability. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.

Sec. 25. A voting system must include capabilities of recording and reporting the date and time of normal and abnormal events and of maintaining a permanent record of audit information that cannot be turned off. A voting system must include provisions to detect and record signifi…

Sec. 26. (a) The ballot counting software must be designed in a modular fashion and not be self-modifying. Modular programs must consist of code written in relatively small and easily identifiable sections, with each unit having a single entry point and a single exit point. Each …

Sec. 3. A vendor may apply to the election division to examine a voting system and report on its accuracy, efficiency, and capacity. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.

Sec. 33. The vendor shall provide for the real-time monitoring of system status and data quality. The election division (or the competent person designated by the commission to act on behalf of the election division) shall determine methods of assessment with the advice of a test…

Sec. 34. Measurement of the relative frequency of entry to program units and the frequency of exception conditions must be included as part of the quality assessment. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.

Sec. 36. Software used in all systems must monitor the overall quality of data read-write and transfer quality status, checking the number and types of errors that occur in any of the relevant operations on data and how the errors were corrected. If the total number of corrected …

Sec. 37. Ballot card voting systems must rely on the retention of ballots as a redundant means of verifying election results. As a means of assuring accuracy in electronic voting systems, the unit must incorporate multiple memories in the machine itself and in the unit's programm…

Sec. 38. The stored images of each ballot must protect the integrity of the data and the anonymity of each voter by such means as storage location scrambling. The ballot image records may be either machine readable or manually transcribed, or both, at the discretion of the vendor…

Sec. 39. The electronic voting system firmware instructions must contain necessary logical instructions to determine correct recording of each and every candidate or public question selection made by the voter to the appropriate memory registers and tables. In the case of a parti…

Sec. 4. (a) This section does not apply to an application for a de minimis change. (b) Each application for certification of a voting system shall be accompanied by a fee of five thousand dollars ($5,000). All fees collected under this section shall be deposited with the treasure…

Sec. 40. After every ballot is cast, a reconciliation of the sum of selections and undervotes must occur. The undervotes may not be generated as a default but must be generated as the result of scanning the ballot as the ballot is cast. As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.332.

Sec. 41. Status messages must become part of the real-time audit record. Latitude in software design is necessary so that consideration can be given to various user processing and reporting needs. The user shall require status and information messages to be displayed and reported…

Sec. 42. Depending on the critical nature of the message, and the particular jurisdiction's needs, status messages shall preferably be displayed and reported by suitable, unambiguous indicators or English language text. Noncritical status messages may be displayed if the message …