California Elections Code

§ 2501

ELEC § 2501 Effective Jan 1, 2014Div. 2 · Ch. 7

Statute text

(a)No later than January 31, 2014, and annually thereafter, the vendor of an election management system shall cause an exact copy of the source code for each component of the election management system, including complete build and configuration instructions and related documents for compiling the source code into object code, to be deposited into an approved escrow facility. The vendor shall place in escrow source codes for each version of the election management system in use in a county in the state.

(b)The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations relating to all of the following:

(1)The definition of source code components of an election management system, including source code for all firmware and software of the election management system. Firmware and software shall include commercial off-the-shelf or other third-party firmware and software that is available and able to be disclosed by the vendor of the election management system.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 268, Sec. 1. (AB 829) Effective January 1, 2014.