§ 305.5

California Elections Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) “Paper cast vote record” means an auditable document that corresponds to the selection made on the voter’s ballot and lists the contests on the ballot and the voter’s selections for those contests.

(b) A paper cast vote record is a ballot only if the paper cast vote record is generated on a voting device or machine that complies with ballot layout requirements and is tabulated by a separate device from the device that created the paper cast vote record.

(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 57, Sec. 2. (AB 2835) Effective January 1, 2019.)

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