§ NMSA 1978, § 1-9-7.9Voting systems; memory; removable storage media device; requirements

Voting systems; memory; removable storage media device; requirements.
Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall:
A. be programmable with removable storage media devices;
B. contain ballot control information, summary vote totals, maintenance logs and operator logs
on the removable storage media device;
C. ensure that the votes stored on the removable storage media device accurately represent
the actual votes cast;
D. be designed so that no executable code can be launched from random access memory;
E. have any operating system software stored in nonvolatile memory, which shall include internal quality checks such as parity or error detection and correction codes, and which software
shall include comprehensive diagnostics to ensure that failures do not go undetected;
F. allow for pre-election testing of the ballot control logic and accuracy, with results stored in
the memory that is used on election day, and shall be capable of printing a zero-results printout
prior to these tests and a results printout after the test;
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G. have internal audit trail capability such that all pre-election, election day and post-election events shall be stored, recorded and recovered in an easy-to-read printed form and be
retained within memory that does not require external power for memory retention;
H. possess the capability of remote transmission of election results to a central location only
by reading the removable storage media devices once they have been removed from the tabulation
device after the poll closing sequence has been completed; and
I. prevent data from being altered or destroyed by report generation or by the transmission of
results.