EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Alfie Charles
Organization : | Sequoia Voting Systems
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.5.2
Page no. : | 44
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Comment : | Under the discussion section, there are several other security processes and procedures in place that achieve this goal, such as the use of tamper evident seals to secure the paper records in an enclosed unit at the polling place, legal restrictions on public access to the voted paper records, procedures to prohibit the collection of data regarding the order in which voters cast their ballots or the machines on which their ballot was cast, etc. Procedures have often been used to secure anonymity in the voting process, as is currently the practice with the receipt of mail ballots that arrive in an envelope signed by the voter. Because other sections of the VVSG address the scrolling of paper records, it is clear that this section would permit the current reel-to-reel approach of creating and storing vvpat records, however, it would be useful for the VVSG to clearly state that the current approach is acceptable.