EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | John R. Lott, Jr.
Organization : | American Enterprise Institute
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.5
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Comment : | The emphasis on read-only memory and write-once media are important security steps and indeed this is following what has been the practice in the industry with DREs. Multiple records not only make tampering more difficult, but they also make it possible for crosschecking to alert users to system errors that might arise. One safeguard for data that is transmitted over public telecommunication networks that doesn’t appear to be mentioned is that the voting records are still in a write-once format on the voting machine allowing for one to examine the original data and conduct a recount if any problems should arise in the tabulations because the system has been hacked into. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, August 23, 2005, Denver]