EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Susan Pynchon
Organization : | Florida Fair Elections Coalition
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8
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Comment : | Page 141 of the 1990 VSS, Section E-5 regarding DREs, states: "Voter confirmation does not guarantee that the voter choices are correctly recorded and updated in memory registers." This statement needs to be re-inserted in the 2005 VSS. Voters must not be misled into believing that VVPAT "confirmation" assures them that their votes have been accurately recorded by the DRE. Since voter confirmation does not guarantee accuracy, VVPAT must be able to be hand counted (manual audit capacity)and must in fact BE hand counted to confirm machine counts.