EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | .20.1.8.2.4
Page no. : | (Vol 2)
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Comment : | In this test requirement in Vol.2, Section 1.8.2.4, "Witness of System Build and Installation", it is required to perform the witness build at the vendor site, but it would also be practical to allow the witness build to be performed at the test lab's site. With travel arrangements, schedules, etc., it may be easier for the vendor to be physically present at the test lab site then for the test lab personnel to physically travel to the vendor's site. A development system could possibly be set up at the test lab site to allow the compiling of the release software. Although the visit to the vendor's site is meant to also serve as an opportunity for the test lab to examine the vendor's quality assurance system, those examinations could be handled at a different time when schedules allow or may not need to be performed as frequently as the witness builds are performed. Making a change to this requirement to allow both sites to be used for witness builds, wouldn't exclude the ability of the test lab to visit the vendor's site to audit their quality assurance program. Proposed change: In the first sentence, replace the words "conducted at the vendor site" with the words "conducted at either the vendor site or the test lab site."