Pennsylvania Code
Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

• No statutes or acts will be found at this website.

The Pennsylvania Bulletin website includes the following: Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; State agency notices; the Governor’s Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; and Statewide and local court rules.

PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 17-1593

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Revised Directive and Fee Increase for Electronic Voting System Examinations

[47 Pa.B. 6019]
[Saturday, September 23, 2017]

 The Secretary of the Commonwealth (Secretary) has revised the Directive Concerning the Conduct of Electronic Voting System Examinations by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Directive). The Directive is is- sued by the Secretary to voting system vendors seeking an electronic voting system examination in the Commonwealth and governs the conduct for all electronic voting system examinations.

 In addition to several minor changes, the Secretary, through the revised Directive and under his authority under section 1105-A(a) of the Pennsylvania Election Code (25 P.S. § 3031.5(a)) increased the fee for an electronic voting system examination. The Secretary determined that the previous fee of $3,000 did not accurately reflect the costs to the Department of State (Department) to examine and certify electronic voting systems. Effective September 11, 2017, a voting system vendor must now reimburse the Commonwealth for all reasonable costs associated with examination of the electronic voting system, including fees and expenses charged by the Secretary's designated voting system examiner during the preparation and execution of the examination. Each request for an examination shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable deposit of $15,000, made payable to ''Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.'' The examination deposit may be returned to a vendor, less the cost of any work completed by the examiner to date, if a vendor cancels the examination more than 20 days prior to the scheduled examination. The examination deposit will not be returned to the vendor if a vendor cancels the examination less than 20 days before the scheduled examination.

 The revised Directive is available on the Department's web site at www.dos.pa.gov (select ''Voting & Elections,'' then ''Policies, Statistics & Other Services,'' then ''Voting Systems''). For more information, contact Sindhu Ramachandran, Voting System Analyst, Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation, (717) 525-5743, sramachand@pa.gov.

PEDRO A. CORTÉS, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 17-1593. Filed for public inspection September 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.]


No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit.

This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Bulletin full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.