The secretary of state shall enter into a written contractual agreement with the data processor notwithstanding the fact that the data processor may be a department of state government.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-5-31, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 255, § 80; 2005, ch. 270, § 37.
The 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, provided the secretary of state shall enter into an agreement with a data processor; deleted the provisions in former Subsection A, which provided that each county shall enter into an agreement with a data processor notwithstanding the fact that the data processor is a department of a county or municipality and that parties to the agreement shall be the county, the county clerk and the data processor; deleted former Subsection B, which provided that all agreements shall be approved by the secretary of state with the assistance of the automated voter records system advisory committee; and deleted former Subsection C, which provided that the secretary of state shall provide by regulation contractual provisions required for approval.