For purposes of this Article XII, the following terms have the following meanings:
“Ballot marking device” shall mean voting equipment used by voters to record votes on paper ballots.
“Disclosed source voting system” shall mean a voting system subject to licenses that allow the public to review all of its source code and the ability to share all source code with other parties. Disclosed source voting systems may incorporate software that has a proprietary license that would restrict the users’ ability to copy or modify its source code.
“Open source” shall mean the software’s source code is available for use, study, re-use, modification, enhancement, and re-distribution and is subject to one or more licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
“Open source voting system” shall mean a voting system (a) whose software is open source; and (b) whose electronic hardware is off-the-shelf and publicly available.
“Secretary of State” shall mean the California Secretary of State.
“Source code” shall mean the version of a computer program in which the programmer's original programming statements are expressed in a source language (e.g. C++, C#, Visual Basic or Java) which must be compiled or assembled and linked into equivalent machine-executable object code, thereby resulting in an executable software program.
“Voting system” means a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic system and its software, or any combination of these used for casting a ballot, tabulating votes, or both. “Voting system” does not include a remote accessible vote by mail system.
(Added by Ord. 12-22, File No. 211303, App. 2/4/2022, Eff. 3/7/2022)