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     206.845 Ballot recording and counting security. 

    Subdivision 1.    Prohibited connections.  The county 
 auditor and municipal clerk must secure ballot recording and 
 tabulating systems physically and electronically against 
 unauthorized access.  Except for wired connections within the 
 polling place, ballot recording and tabulating systems must not 
 be connected to or operated on, directly or indirectly, any 
 electronic network, including a local area network, a wide-area 
 network, the Internet, or the World Wide Web.  Wireless 
 communications may not be used in any way in a vote recording or 
 vote tabulating system.  Wireless, device-to-device capability 
 is not permitted.  No connection by modem is permitted. 

    Transfer of information from the ballot recording or 
 tabulating system to another system for network distribution or 
 broadcast must be made by disk, tape, or other physical means of 
 communication, other than direct or indirect electronic 
 connection of the vote recording or vote tabulating system. 

    Subd. 2.    Transmission to central reporting location.  
 After the close of the polls, the head election judge must 
 create a printed record of the results of the election for that 
 precinct.  After the record has been printed, the head election 
 judge in a precinct that employs automatic tabulating equipment 
 may transmit the accumulated tally for each device to a central 
 reporting location using a telephone, modem, Internet, or other 
 electronic connection.  During the canvassing period, the 
 results transmitted electronically must be considered unofficial 
 until the canvassing board has performed a complete 
 reconciliation of the results. 

    HIST: 2005 c 162 s 27 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.