Delaware § 1103 - Disaster recovery and continuity of operations.

§ 1103. Disaster recovery and continuity of operations.

(a) If paper registration records are lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced, the affected department or departments shall not replace the records but shall use the State’s Election Management System database as the source of voter registration data for the persons whose records were so affected.

(b) The State Election Commissioner, in collaboration with the Department of Technology and Information, shall establish and maintain a disaster recovery program that would provide the State Election Commissioner and the offices of the Department in each county immediate access to a duplicate version of the Election Management System and associated databases in event of a disaster that makes the production system unavailable.

(c) The State Election Commissioner and the departments of elections shall no later than January 1, 2008, implement a continuity of operations plan that would permit any of the agencies to continue operations if any of the agencies are denied access to its offices during critical periods.

Code 1915, §  1630;  34 Del. Laws, c. 106, §  1;  37 Del. Laws, c. 117, §  7;  Code 1935, §  1717;  43 Del. Laws, c. 121, §  6;  44 Del. Laws, c. 106, §  1;  45 Del. Laws, c. 145, §  6;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  1104;  49 Del. Laws, c. 17, §  3;  50 Del. Laws, c. 169, §  1;  75 Del. Laws, c. 232, §  8;  77 Del. Laws, c. 227, §  2;  79 Del. Laws, c. 275, §  17;