EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.6.5
Page no. : | 47
Line no.: | 10
Comment : | In this requirement, "The voting system should generate and store a digital signature for each electronic record.", it doesn't seem practical to store a digital signature for each electronic record, when a single digital signature for the whole record file would meet the intent of providing a method of verifying the integrity of the electronic records. There is no discussion in this requirement indicating the necessity for a digital signature for "each" electronic record. If practically applied to the file instead of each record, this requirement can be changed to a "shall". Proposed change: Replace the requirement with the following language: "The voting system shall generate and store a digital signature for the electronic record file."