EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 4.1.1
Page no. : | 4-2
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Comment : | In a portion of the paragraph stating "Unmodified software is not subject to code examination; however, source code generated by a package and embedded in software modules for compilation or interpretation shall be provided in human readable form to the test lab.", there is a possible error. Source code is not 'generated by packages', except in certain esoteric circumstances, such as 'compiler compilers'. We assume the meaning to be "source code provided by third parties and embedded in software modules for compilation..." Proposed change: Replace portion of sentence that reads "...source code generated by a package..." with "source code provided by third parties...".