Elec. Code, § 19207.5 · Article 1. Procedures for Certification of Voting Systems
Elec. Code, § 19207.5
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) An elections official or the governing body of any jurisdiction that administers elections shall use a voting machine, as defined in Section 361, or a voting system, as defined in Section 362, that has been certified pursuant to this division, to do all of the following:
(1) Provide sufficient numbers of voting machines or voting systems for accessibility pursuant to Section 19242 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 20901 et seq.).
(2) Tabulate votes.
(b) If a jurisdiction that administers elections terminates a contract for an existing certified voting system, that termination shall be provisional and shall not become final unless and until the jurisdiction that administers elections has satisfied all of the following:
(1) The jurisdiction has a plan to transition to a new voting system that will ensure compliance with applicable state and federal laws.
(2) The jurisdiction has finalized and signed a new contract for a certified voting system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 300, Sec. 4. (AB 969) Effective October 4, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=19207.5.
- Text hash
- sha256 f4cf9f58c21c9016c458c59243b001d032862c11d95a38ffb766b5aafe56a0de
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Cited by 1 provision
Provisions in this library whose text cites Elec. Code, § 19207.5. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Elections Code
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.