EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Warren Smith
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | LIMITS ON COMPUTING POWER AND SECRET MANIPULABILITY: If a voting machine contains a computer, then it should be demanded that the computer contain * at most 1 Kbyte of random-access read/write memory, including "registers" and "cache". * unlimited amount of read-only random access memory (ROM) but all ROM is required to be built-in and not easily replaceable. * unlimited amount of write-only random access memory. * unlimited amount of unidirectional-sequential-access read/write memory. (In the above, "memory" includes both semiconductor, magnetic, or any other kind, and any removable rewriteable media such as disks. "Write-once" memory such as PROMs or writeable optical disks does NOT count as "read-only" - it counts are "writeable" even if the voting machine itself does not have that writing capability.) * The clock rate of the computer shall be at most 10 MegaHertz. * All software must be made public by the manufacturer, on a US government web site, at least a year before the machine is used and throughout the operation of the machine, and in both compiled and source-code forms, and with that source code agreed by experts to be "clearly written".