§ 1107Requirements of Voting Machines

No voting
machine shall, upon any examination or reexamination, be
approved by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, or by any
examiner appointed by him, unless it shall, at the time, satisfy
the following requirements:
   (a) It shall provide facilities for voting for such
candidates as may be nominated, and upon such questions as may
be submitted.
   (b) ((b) deleted by amendment Oct. 31, 2019, P.L.552, No.77)
   (c) It shall permit each voter, at other than primary
elections, to vote a ticket selected from the nominees of any

and all political parties, from the nominees of any and all
political bodies, and from persons not in nomination.
   (d) It shall permit each voter to vote, at any election,
for any person and for any office for whom and for which he is
lawfully entitled to vote, whether or not the name of such
person appears upon a ballot label as a candidate for nomination
or election, and to vote for as many persons for an office as
he is entitled to vote for, and to vote for or against any
question upon which he is entitled to vote.
   (e) It shall preclude each voter from voting for any
candidate, or upon any question, for whom or upon which he is
not entitled to vote, and from voting for more persons for any
office than he is entitled to vote for, and from voting for any
candidate for the same office or upon any question more than
once, except in districts and for offices where cumulative
voting is authorized by law.
   (f) It shall be capable of adjustment by election officers,
so as to permit each voter at a primary election to vote only
for the candidates for nonpartisan nomination, if any, and for
the candidates seeking nomination by the political party in
which he is registered and enrolled, if he is enrolled as a
member of a political party, and so as to preclude him from
voting for the candidates seeking nomination by any political
party in which he is not enrolled.
   (g) It shall permit each voter to deposit, write in, or
affix upon receptacles or devices provided for the purpose,
ballots containing the names of persons for whom he desires to
vote, whose names do not appear upon the machine.
   (h) It shall permit each voter to change his vote for any
candidate, or upon any question appearing upon the ballot
labels, up to the time he begins the final operation to register
his vote, or indicates or expresses his intention to register
his vote.
   (i) It shall permit and require voting in absolute secrecy,
and shall be so constructed that no person can see or know for
whom any other elector has voted or is voting, save a voter
whom he has assisted or is assisting in voting, as prescribed
by law.
   (j) It shall have voting devices for separate candidates
and questions, which shall be arranged in separate parallel
rows or columns, so that, at any primary election, one or more
adjacent rows or columns may be assigned to the candidates of
a party, and shall have parallel office columns or rows
transverse thereto.
   (k) It shall have a counter, or other device, the register
of which is visible from the outside of the machine, which shall
show during any period of voting the total number of voters who
have operated the machine during said period of voting.
   (l) It shall have a protective counter, or other device,
the register of which cannot be reset, which shall record the
cumulative total number of movements of the operating mechanism.
   (m) It shall be provided with a lock or locks, by the use
of which, immediately after the polls are closed, or the
operation of the machine for an election is completed, all
movement of the registering mechanism is absolutely prevented.
   (n) It shall be provided with a screen, hood or curtain,
which shall conceal the actions of the voter while voting.
   (o) It shall be constructed of material of good quality,
in a neat and workmanlike manner.
   (p) It shall, when properly operated, register or record
correctly and accurately every vote cast.

   (q) It shall be so constructed that a voter may readily
learn the method of operating it.
   (r) It shall be safely transportable.
   (s) It shall be so constructed and controlled that, during
the progress of voting, it shall preclude every person from
seeing or knowing the number of votes registered for any
candidate, and from tampering with any of the registering
mechanism.
   (t) If it is of a type equipped with mechanism for printing
paper proof sheets, and not requiring the counters to be made
visible in order to canvass the votes recorded on the machine,
the door, or other device, concealing such counters, or keeping
the same concealed, may be equipped with a lock or locks,
requiring the simultaneous use of three separate and
substantially different keys to open or operate the same.