Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 1360 - Department of State
Subtitle 1360-02 - Elections
Chapter 1360-02-18 - Downloading Early Voting Results
Section 1360-02-18-.09 - REMOVING RESULTS FROM MICROVOTE MACHINES
Current through September 24, 2024
The county election commission shall follow substantially the same procedures as are performed on election night to remove vote totals from voting machines produced by the Microvote Corporation, with exceptions only as noted below.
(1) When programming the machines prior to early voting, the machine must be set to print results by NUMERIC report under the ADVANCED UTILITIES options, as opposed to ALPHA-NUMERIC.
(2) One of the technicians shall cut the seal on the judge's compartment access cover. The technician shall slide back the cover and press the latch bar to open the door on the judge's compartment. The technician shall press the MODE button and then press the CAST VOTE button to begin tallying the results. No other buttons shall be pressed on the machine until after the memory cartridge has been removed. The judge's compartment door shall be closed while the printer is printing the results.
(3) Once the printer has stopped printing the results, a technician shall open the judge's compartment door and remove the tape with the printed results from the spool without unwinding the tape. This tape shall immediately be placed in an envelope without examination; the technician shall mark the envelope with the number of the voting machine and any other necessary information for matching the results to the appropriate elections.
(4) A technician shall then open the custodian's compartment and remove the audit trail tape in the same manner as the tape with the official results. This tape shall be placed in the envelope with the other printout. The envelope shall be sealed and the representative of each political party and the registrar shall sign across the flap of the envelope. The envelope shall then be placed in a ballot box.
(5) A technician shall cut the seal inside the judge's compartment and then remove the memory cartridge and place it in a separate envelope from the printout. The envelope shall be sealed and the representative of each political party and the registrar shall sign across the flap of the envelope. The envelope shall then be placed in a ballot box.
Authority: T.C.A. §§ 2-11-201(c) and 2-6-304(e).
