EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Dennis Vadura
Organization : | AccuPoll
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.4.6.3.4
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Comment : | This requirement is onerous for voting systems that utilize COTS hardware for their voting device. It is also impossible to provide access to installed software (eg. On a disk drive in the voting device) without utilizing some installed software. If the purpose of this requirement is to ensure that the system software is easy to verify through a trusted interface, then the correct method to do so would be to allow for a system to boot off a trusted external device such that it provides read-only access to the location of the voting system software for the purpose of verification. Booting from an external device must be disabled at all times except as enabled through the use of a password or some other such secure access method.