2022 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 26. Elections
§26-21-101. Unitary, unified, integrated system of election administration - Implementation – Procedures.

A. The Secretary of the State Election Board is hereby authorized beginning July 1, 1989, to purchase equipment for and implement a unitary, unified, integrated system of election administration for the State of Oklahoma that includes an electronic data processing system for maintenance of voter registration records, certification of election results and other election-related applications, and the installation of electronic, optical scanning voting devices compatible with the same system in every precinct polling place.

B. The Secretary of the State Election Board is authorized to adopt procedures consistent, insofar as practicable, with existing law for implementation of the system.

C. Except as provided in subsection A of this section, no electronic data processing applications shall be implemented by a county election board, nor shall voting devices be purchased by a county, except for those electronic data processing applications and voting devices already in use or for which a contract had been signed by no later than March 31, 1986.

D. A new unitary integrated voting system described in subsection A of this section that is implemented on or after January 1, 2023, shall be required to report the official election returns of each election by precinct, including, but not limited to, all votes cast in person and by absentee ballot.

Added by Laws 1986, c. 137, § 1, emerg. eff. April 17, 1986. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 338, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 1989; Laws 2022, c. 291, § 5.

NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 20-101 of this title to avoid a duplication in numbering.