Relating to security of election system equipment.

Contracts

• Master Services Agreements (MSAs): Vendors must amend agreements to explicitly define which party (Vendor or Client) provides the compliant "locked room."
• Liability Clauses: Update indemnification sections. If a poll worker cuts a seal without recording the statutory "purpose," the vendor must be indemnified against the resulting chain-of-custody breach.
• Third-Party Logistics: Warehousing contracts must specify that equipment cannot sit on an open floor; it must be in a partitioned, locked enclosure.

Hiring/Training

• Technician Training: Field staff must be retrained. They can no longer simply cut and replace seals during maintenance. They must now execute a "Seal Break" affidavit for every instance of access.
• Audit Staff: Designate a specific Compliance Officer to verify seal logs against physical inventory prior to deployment.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

• Inventory Software: Update asset management systems immediately to add a mandatory field for "Designated Polling Location" for all electronic storage media.
• Chain of Custody Logs: Implement a Voting System Access Log that captures four statutory data points: (1) Seal ID, (2) Person removing seal, (3) Time/Date, and (4) Statutory Purpose (e.g., maintenance, testing).

Fees & Costs

• Billable Hours: Adjust service pricing to account for increased administrative time required to log and witness seal changes.
• Hardware Costs: Budget for high-volume procurement of serialized, tamper-evident seals.
• Facility Costs: Potential capital expenditure if current warehousing requires partition construction to meet the "locked room" standard.