Cal. ELEC § 361
This is the official text of Cal. ELEC § 361, part of California’s Elections Code — governs how elections are conducted, including voter registration, ballots, and campaign rules.
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Official statutory text
“Voting machine” means any electronic device, including, but not limited to, a precinct optical scanner and a direct recording voting system, into which a voter may enter his or her votes, and which, by means of electronic tabulation and generation of printouts or other tangible, human-readable records, furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for each candidate and for or against each measure.
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