EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Kathy Dopp
Organization : | National Election Data Archive
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1D
Page no. : | D-4
Line no.: | 20 - 22
Comment : | RE: Appendix D (your comment form does not permit Section: Appendix D or Section: D-1 to be entered) It is conceivable that the capture station could be misprogrammed (in error or deliberately) to write incorrect votes to the toke and store incorrect votes electronically and yet display them correctly to the voter, and that the verification station could be similarly misprogrammed to display votes as the voter had cast them, but count them incorrectly. Even if not, the vote counts could be subsequently tampered with or the tokens could sometimes have electronic failures. Neither the token, nor the electronic votes can be directly verified by voters. This system seems more complex and expensive than simpler systems that the voters could directly verify.