§ ORS § 254.074County elections security plan; submission of ballot information to Secretary of State; rules

(1)(a) Each county clerk shall file a county elections security plan with the
Secretary of State not later than:

(A) A date
established for each calendar year by the Secretary of State by rule; and

(B) One business
day after any revision is made to the county elections security plan.

(b) A county
elections security plan shall include, but is not limited to:

(A) A written
security agreement entered into with any vendor handling ballots;

(B) Security
procedures for transporting ballots;

(C) Security
procedures at official places of deposit for ballots;

(D) Security
procedures for processing ballots;

(E) Security
procedures for ensuring the integrity of printed ballots;

(F) Cybersecurity
procedures for the process of casting and tallying ballots that are consistent
with best practices recommended by federal authorities such as the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the United States
Department of Homeland Security or the National Institute of Standards and
Technology of the United States Department of Commerce;

(G) Security
procedures governing election observers;

(H) Security
procedures for ballots located in county elections work areas, buildings and
storage areas;

(I) Security
procedures for vote tally systems, including computer access to vote tally
systems;

(J) The number
and location of all video surveillance cameras within the elections office;

(K) Security
procedures for scanning ballots into a vote tally system before the date of the
election, if applicable;

(L) Post-election
ballot security; and

(M) Any other
security measure that the Secretary of State requires by rule.

(2) A security
plan, and all communications relating to the development and review of a
security plan, developed and filed under subsection (1) of this section are
confidential and not subject to disclosure under ORS 192.311 to 192.478.

(3) For each
election, at the time the county clerk certifies the results of an election,
the clerk shall submit to the Secretary of State a record of:

(a) The number of
ballot envelopes received.

(b) The number of
ballot envelopes accepted.

(c) The number of
ballot envelopes not accepted.

(d) The number of
ballot envelopes rejected.

(e) The number of
tallied ballots.

(4) A county
clerk may not scan ballots as described in ORS 254.478 unless the Secretary of
State reviews and approves a security plan described in subsection (1) of this
section. [2001 c.965 §48; 2009 c.592 §2; 2013 c.679 §1; 2023 c.600 §4]



254.075 [1967 c.364 §4; repealed by 1967
s.s. c.3 §4]



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