EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Tim Hurst
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/14/2005
General Comments
Comment : | In Various places of the document, requirements are conditioned upon state or local statutes. The Guidelines should be "equipment specific". For example, section 6.5.6, page 23, lines 30 -34, says "... the system shall ... be designed to provide external access to incomplete election returns only if that assess ... is authorized by the statutes and regulations of the using agency." Since a testing lab cannot know all of the state and local regulations, it cannot test for this condition. There is a similar problem in section 2.2.7.2.2.6, page 2-22, lines 3-4. The Guidelines should state that if a specific feature is provided, such as a VVPAT, then the feature must meet specific standards that can be tested and reported. The local jurisdiction can then determine if that feature meets the requirements of state or local regulations.