- (1) Software shall be validated, with no errors or unknown warnings, in accordance with this rule and Section 20A-5-802 when installing and at least once every two years thereafter.
- (2) The election officer shall validate software against the trusted build hash validation from the EAC using instructions approved by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.
- (3) Validation shall be performed by the election officer, a designee, or someone authorized to perform the validation by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.
- (4) Before using any voting equipment, and before each election, the election officer shall verify that the firmware version on any voting equipment matches the firmware version that is certified by the EAC.
- (5) The election officer shall make and keep a signed record of each software validation and voting equipment verification that is performed for 24 months after the software or voting equipment is no longer in use.
(6)(a) The Office of the Lieutenant Governor shall select at least five jurisdictions each year and supervise the performance of software validations and voting equipment verifications for those jurisdictions.
- (b) These validations may be in addition to any other validation performed by the election officer.
- (7) Nothing in this rule prevents an election officer from performing more validations than are required by this rule, but each validation shall follow the procedures outlined in this rule.
KEY: elections, lieutenant governor, software, validation, voting, equipment, hash
Date of Last Change: October 23, 2025
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 20A-5-905