EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David RR Webber
Organization : | OASIS EML TC
Post Date : | 6/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 3
Page no. : | 4
Line no.: | see excerpt
Comment : | The error rate numbers and means to test these need to be elaborated. It is most unclear as to what method can demonstrate 10,000,000 voting events in testing, or 500,000 events and why a single error at one level equates to one error at the higher level. Also - your text contains basic typing errors - hardly condusive to confidence in error testing here - see ate and suing : The national certification testing process is intended to discover vulnerabilities that, should they appear in actual election use, could result in failure to complete election operations in a satisfactory manner. There are four focuses that guide the overall process: - Operational accuracy in the recording and processing of voting data, as measured by target error rate, for which the maximum acceptable error ate is no more than one in ten million ballot positions, with a maximum acceptable error rate in the test process of one in 500,000 ballot positions; - Operational failures or the number of unrecoverable failures under conditions simulating the intended storage, operation, transportation, and maintenance environments for voting systems, suing an actual time-based period of processing test ballots;