§ 1106Examination and Approval of Voting Machines by the Secretary of the Commonwealth

(a) Any person or corporation owning, manufacturing or
selling, or being interested in the manufacture or sale of, any
voting machine, may request the Secretary of the Commonwealth
to examine the machine. Any ten or more persons, being qualified
electors of this Commonwealth, may, at any time, request the
Secretary of the Commonwealth to reexamine any voting machine
theretofore examined and approved by him. Before any such
examination or reexamination, the person, persons, or
corporation, requesting such examination or reexamination, shall
pay to the treasurer of the Commonwealth an examination fee of
four hundred and fifty dollars ($450). The Secretary of the
Commonwealth may, at any time, in his discretion, reexamine any
voting machine.
   (b) The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall thereupon
require such machine to be examined or reexamined by three
examiners, whom he shall appoint for the purpose, of whom one
shall be an expert in patent law, and the other two shall be
experts in mechanics, and shall require of them a written report
on such machine, attested by their signatures; and the Secretary
of the Commonwealth himself shall examine the machine, and shall
make and file in his office, together with the reports of the
examiners appointed by him, his own report, attested by his
signature and the seal of his office, stating whether, in his
opinion and in consideration of the reports of the examiners
aforesaid, the kind of machine so examined can be safely used
by electors at elections, as provided in this act. If his report
states that the machine can be so used, the machine shall be
deemed approved, and machines of its kind may be adopted for
use at elections, as herein provided.
   (c) No kind of voting machine not so approved shall be used
at any election, and if, upon the reexamination of any voting
machine previously approved, it shall appear that the machine
so reexamined can no longer be safely used by electors at
elections as provided in this act, the approval of the same
shall forthwith be revoked by the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
and no such voting machine shall thereafter be purchased for
use in this Commonwealth.
   (d) When a machine has been so approved, no improvement or
change that does not impair its accuracy, efficiency or
capacity, shall render necessary a reexamination or reapproval
of the machine, or of its kind.
   (e) Neither the Secretary of the Commonwealth, nor any
examiner appointed by him for the purpose prescribed by this
section, nor any member of a county election board shall have
any pecuniary interest in any voting machine, or in the
manufacture or sale thereof.
   (f) Each examiner appointed hereunder shall receive a
compensation of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) for each
different type of voting machine examined by him.