Section 3007 - Requirements of voting machinesNo voting machine shall, upon any examination or reexamination, be approved by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, or by any examiner appointed by him, unless it shall, at the time, satisfy the following requirements:
(a) It shall provide facilities for voting for such candidates as may be nominated, and upon such questions as may be submitted.(b) [Deleted by 2019 Amendment.](c) It shall permit each voter, at other than primary elections, to vote a ticket selected from the nominees of any and all political parties, from the nominees of any and all political bodies, and from persons not in nomination.(d) It shall permit each voter to vote, at any election, for any person and for any office for whom and for which he is lawfully entitled to vote, whether or not the name of such person appears upon a ballot label as a candidate for nomination or election, and to vote for as many persons for an office as he is entitled to vote for, and to vote for or against any question upon which he is entitled to vote.(e) It shall preclude each voter from voting for any candidate, or upon any question, for whom or upon which he is not entitled to vote, and from voting for more persons for any office than he is entitled to vote for, and from voting for any candidate for the same office or upon any question more than once, except in districts and for offices where cumulative voting is authorized by law.(f) It shall be capable of adjustment by election officers, so as to permit each voter at a primary election to vote only for the candidates for nonpartisan nomination, if any, and for the candidates seeking nomination by the political party in which he is registered and enrolled, if he is enrolled as a member of a political party, and so as to preclude him from voting for the candidates seeking nomination by any political party in which he is not enrolled.(g) It shall permit each voter to deposit, write in, or affix upon receptacles or devices provided for the purpose, ballots containing the names of persons for whom he desires to vote, whose names do not appear upon the machine.(h) It shall permit each voter to change his vote for any candidate, or upon any question appearing upon the ballot labels, up to the time he begins the final operation to register his vote, or indicates or expresses his intention to register his vote.(i) It shall permit and require voting in absolute secrecy, and shall be so constructed that no person can see or know for whom any other elector has voted or is voting, save a voter whom he has assisted or is assisting in voting, as prescribed by law.(j) It shall have voting devices for separate candidates and questions, which shall be arranged in separate parallel rows or columns, so that, at any primary election, one or more adjacent rows or columns may be assigned to the candidates of a party, and shall have parallel office columns or rows transverse thereto.(k) It shall have a counter, or other devise, the register of which is visible from the outside of the machine, which shall show during any period of voting the total number of voters who have operated the machine during said period of voting.(l) It shall have a protective counter, or other device, the register of which cannot be reset, which shall record the cumulative total number of movements of the operating mechanism.(m) It shall be provided with a lock or locks, by the use of which, immediately after the polls are closed, or the operation of the machine for an election is completed, all movement of the registering mechanism is absolutely prevented.(n) It shall be provided with a screen, hood or curtain, which shall conceal the actions of the voter while voting.(o) It shall be constructed of material of good quality, in a neat and workmanlike manner.(p) It shall, when properly operated, register or record correctly and accurately every vote cast.(q) It shall be so constructed that a voter may readily learn the method of operating it.(r) It shall be safely transportable.(s) It shall be so constructed and controlled that, during the progress of voting, it shall preclude every person from seeing or knowing the number of votes registered for any candidate, and from tampering with any of the registering mechanism.(t) If it is of a type equipped with mechanism for printing paper proof sheets, and not requiring the counters to be made visible in order to canvass the votes recorded on the machine, the door, or other device, concealing such counters, or keeping the same concealed, may be equipped with a lock or locks, requiring the simultaneous use of three separate and substantially different keys to open or operate the same.Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 77, § 3, eff. 10/31/2019.1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. XI, § 1107.