EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Warren Smith
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | GENERALLY: These guidelines are 2 book volumes long and essentially unreadable. Checking whether a voting machine obeys the guidelines is an extremely hard problem - in fact beyond the resources of all of humanity and certainly beyond the resources of typical US counties - and yet no agency or entity is created by these guidelines with the technical wherewithal to have any chance of testing machines to see if they meet the guidelines. That means the guidelines are a joke. But it gets worse. It seems to me that the guidelines largely consist of identifying bad things about the status quo, and then fossilizing them as "approved by these guidelines".