EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Alfie Charles
Organization : | Sequoia Voting Systems
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.3.5
Page no. : | 41
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Comment : | Volume I Section 6, Page 41, Section 6.8.3.5 Current vvpat systems ensure that voters who are blind have the opportunity to verify their ballots through an audio read-back of all the selections they have made. These voters are protected in the same manner as sighted voters through the machine’s production and retention of a paper record that reflects the entirety of their selections. Does this requirement anticipate an additional review features in the future? If so, presumably the enactment of a future requirement would take into account both the future availability of technology to address an additional level of verification as well as provide assurances that such a feature would retain the independence and privacy afforded to blind voters in the current deployment of vvpat functionality.