EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Cristina Vidal
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8
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Comment : | Dear U.S. Election Assistance Commission Members, My brief input. What should be required: 1. Having all electronic voting machines output a paper ballots, that can then be counted if there is any need for a recount 2. Voting machine code should be not be proprietary. The idea of hiding programming code opens the possibility of tampering with the results, and creates distrust. Why these two points should be required: 1. Every vote must count. 2. If Americans do not have confidence that their vote will not be counted, and a staggering amount have this belief, they will not bother to vote. An American's vote should be unassailable and the right upheld as sacred.