EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Electric Voting Machine
Definition : |
Comment : | In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following, picking up with the letter D, having completed A through C in previous comments. As before, in each case, I am quoting the original and then offering an alternative definition. Electronic Voting Machine: Any system that utilizes an electronic component. Term is generally used to refer to DREs. See also Voting Equipment, Voting System. Electronic Voting Machine: A physically distinct component of an electronic voting system that incorporates the electronic vote capture function, for example, a DRE Voting Machines. Some electronic voting systems do not utilize electronic voting machines, for example remote-site Internet voting or optical mark-sense ballot tabulation systems.