§ Ind. Code § 3-11-13-22Automatic tabulating machines; testing; reprinting or correction of ballots requiring additional testing Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027.

(a) This section applies to:
(1) a ballot card voting system; and
(2) a voting system that includes features of a ballot card voting system and a direct
record electronic voting system.
(b) Not later than seventy-four (74) days before election day, for each county planning
to use automatic tabulating machines at the next election, VSTOP shall provide each county
election board with a randomly sorted list of unique identification numbers for the inventory
of machines in the county maintained under IC 3-11-16-4. Starting at the top of the list, the
county election board shall select machines in the list in the order listed so that:
(1) if a machine to be selected in the list is not scheduled to be used in the upcoming
election, the selection process will move to the next machine in the order listed;
(2) each selected machine is scheduled to be used in the upcoming election; and
(3) the number of machines selected is not less than five percent (5%) of the machines
in the county scheduled by the county election board to be used in the upcoming
election.
(c) The county election board shall test the machines as described in subsection (b) to
ascertain that the machines will correctly do the following:
(1) Count the votes cast for straight party tickets, for all candidates (including write-in
candidates), and on all public questions.
(2) Retract an absentee ballot card of a voter who is later found disqualified or whose
ballot may not be counted, in accordance with IC 3-11.5-4-6, before the voter's ballot
is tabulated.