Computer Availability

No county election commission or county governing body may purchase any electronic voting devices or machines until computer availability for programming memory cartridges, printing ballots, and reading memory cartridges, is assured and an expert computer programmer is available. Such assurance and availability shall be evidenced by written contract; provided, however, that computer availability shall not be a prerequisite where the county purchases or leases from the manufacturer of the electronic voting machines, or from another electoral jurisdiction using identical voting equipment, a PC system and ballot printer for its own individual and exclusive use, and provided, further, that the expert computer programmer, (1) need not be a resident of the county, and (2) may be a representative of the manufacturer.