EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Dill
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | In summary, the proposed guidelines do not provide essential protection for our elections. The EAC should take bold action to ensure that our elections are not only accurate, but that everyone knows that they are accurate – even experts in computer security. New guidelines should be in place by 2006, and more stringent guidelines should be implemented as soon after that as possible. The most important step would be to require accessible voter-verified paper records, which is can be easily achieved by any jurisdiction by using precinct-count optical scan with an accessible ballot marking device. There also needs to be much greater attention to network security issues, including a total ban on wireless communication capability. The certification process needs to be revised to make sure that stringent security evaluations occur, and there must be much more transparency in the process. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, July 28, 2005, Pasadena]