This text of New Jersey § 19:31-36 (Capabilities, standard of electronic poll book technology.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Jersey primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
2. The electronic poll book technology certified by the Secretary of State shall meet at least the following capabilities and standards: a. The ability to enable a poll worker to perform by electronic means all of the same functions performed using a paper polling record and signature copy register, during the conduct of an election, including but not limited to, the following:
(1)retrieving a registered voter's name, address, and date of birth and identifying the municipality and the particular election district therein from which the person is registered;
(2)verifying whether additional identifying documents or proof of residency are needed to complete a voter's registration;
(3)accessing a registered voter's voting record and an imprint of the digitized image of the registered voter'
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2. The electronic poll book technology certified by the Secretary of State shall meet at least the following capabilities and standards: a. The ability to enable a poll worker to perform by electronic means all of the same functions performed using a paper polling record and signature copy register, during the conduct of an election, including but not limited to, the following: (1) retrieving a registered voter's name, address, and date of birth and identifying the municipality and the particular election district therein from which the person is registered; (2) verifying whether additional identifying documents or proof of residency are needed to complete a voter's registration; (3) accessing a registered voter's voting record and an imprint of the digitized image of the registered voter's signature; (4) recording a registered voter's signature at the polls; (5) assigning a sequential number of each voter permitted to vote; (6) inspecting whether a registered voter already voted or was mailed a mail-in ballot; (7) redirecting a voter to the correct polling place; (8) recording any necessary notation of remarks on the voter's record as provided by R.S.19:15-23 and any other challenge and the determination thereof by the district board in connection with the conduct of an election; (9) providing an auditable record of the election; and (10) in the case of a primary election, the electronic poll books shall indicate for each registered voter the political party, if any, of which the voter is a member for the purpose of voting at that primary; b. compatibility with the Statewide voter registration system established pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2005, c.145 (C.19:31-31), which shall include the ability of the electronic poll books to import the records of all registered voters in the election district and updates to those records before election day, to record edits to those records on election day, and to export to the Statewide voter registration system all of the election activity and voter participation information at the closing of the polls or, as an alternative to the export capability, the capability to generate a report of the election activity and voter participation information for manual entry into the Statewide voter registration system; c. a proven ability to successfully meet requirements concerning technology documentation, user safety, accessibility, durability, data encryption, non-interference with and separation from the voting system in use during an election, device and system security, audit log, data and power backup, compatibility, and functionality, as demonstrated under actual performance and use in other United States election administration jurisdictions; and d. any other capability or standard deemed appropriate by the county commissioner of registration, county board of elections, or Secretary of State, or deemed necessary to comply with any provision of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes. L.2019, c.80, s.2.