EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 3.4.6
Page no. : | 3-25
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Comment : | The requirement in item (b) to "Display on each device a separate data plate containing a schedule for and list of operations required to service or to perform preventive maintenance" may require a label that, with readably sized text, is bigger than the available space on a small product. There should be provisions in this requirement to allow a vendor to provide this information in the operator's manual on a sample log sheet that the jurisdiction can duplicate and use to keep track of such service on each device. Proposed change: Replace this requirement with "Display on each device a separate data plate containing a schedule for and list of operations required to service or to perform preventive maintenance, unless the data plate cannot be accommodated by the available surface area on the device, then, in this circumstance, the content of this data plate shall be accommodated in the device's documentation; and ..."