ARC 1746C

ARC 1746C

SECRETARY OF STATE[721]

Adopted and Filed

Pursuant to the authority of Iowa Code sections 47.1 and 17A.4, the Secretary of State hereby amends Chapter 22, "Voting Systems," Iowa Administrative Code.

These amendments are necessary to revise the configuration settings for the Unisyn OpenElect voting system which is currently certified for use in the state of Iowa. These amendments update the configuration settings based on the newest version of the certified Unisyn election management software. In addition, this rule making authorizes county commissioners who have purchased the Unisyn OpenElect voting system to use ballot alerts if the commissioners so choose and adds references to newly certified Election Systems & Software and Dominion voting systems to an existing rule.

These amendments were published under Notice of Intended Action in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin on October 1, 2014, as ARC 1643C. No public comments or request for public hearing was received, and no change has been made to the language published in the Notice of Intended Action.

After analysis and review of this rule making, no impact on jobs has been found.

These amendments are intended to implement Iowa Code section 52.5.

These amendments will become effective on January 14, 2015.

The following amendments are adopted.

Item 1. Amend paragraph 22.50(2)"c" as follows:

c. Hardened operating system. For security purposes, users of Election Systems & Software, Unity 3.4.0.1 and, Election Systems & Software EVS 5.3.0.0, Democracy Suite 4.6 and Democracy Suite 4.14B shall harden the operating system on the computer on which the election management system is housed according to the specifications of the vendor and the recommendations of the county information technology department (if any).

Item 2. Amend subrule 22.264(2) as follows:

22.264(2) Configuration choices. The following selections are mandatory for all elections:

a. Access, messaging and tabulating selections. In the Election Manager, "Election Options" menu, the following selections shall be made:

(1)"Allow Add Precinct" shall be checked.

(2)"Full Voter Ballot Review" shall not be checked. The commissioner may select either "Alert Print Only" or "Alert on-screen."

(3)"Consolidate Splits" "Show Precinct Split Totals" shall not be checked.

(4)"Overvote by Voter" "Overvote by Vote For" shall not be checked.

(5)"No Undervote Check" shall be selected in the Undervote Checking dropdown menu.

b. Printing selections. In the Election Manager, "Printing Options" menu, the following selection selections shall be made:

(1)"Auto Print Alerts" shall not may be checked.

(2)"Voter Receipts" shall not be checked.

(3)"Display Contest Results on Summary" "Show Contest Results on Election Day" shall be checked.

c. and d. No change.

[Filed 11/12/14, effective 1/14/15]

[Published 12/10/14]

Editor's Note: For replacement pages for IAC, see IAC Supplement 12/10/14.