1. (a) The county election board of each county planning to use an electronic voting system at the next election shall randomly select at least three (3) precincts within the county and test the voting system units to be used at those precincts on election day. Each voting system shall be tested to ascertain that the system will correctly count the votes cast for straight party tickets, for all candidates (including write-in candidates), and on all public questions in that precinct.
2. (b) The testing under subsection (a) must begin before absentee voting starts in the office of the circuit court clerk under IC 3-11-10-26 .

3. (c) If a county election board determines that:

   1. (1) a ballot provided by an electronic voting system:

      1. (A) must be corrected as provided by IC 3-11-2-16 because of the omission of a candidate, political party, or public question from the ballot; or

      2. (B) is an absentee ballot that a voter is entitled to recast under IC 3-11-10-1.5 because the absentee ballot includes a candidate for election to office who:

         1. (i) ceased to be a candidate; and
         2. (ii) has been succeeded by a candidate selected under IC 3-13-1 or IC 3-13-2 ; and

   2. (2) voting system units used in the test conducted under this section did not contain a ballot that was reprinted or corrected to remove the omission of a candidate, political party, or public question, or indicate the name of the successor candidate;

      the county election board shall conduct an additional public test described in subsection (a) using the voting system units previously tested and containing the reprinted or corrected ballots.

As added by P.L.221-2005, SEC.91. Amended by P.L.169-2015, SEC.130; P.L.100-2018, SEC.7.