EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Kathy Dopp
Organization : | National Election Data Archive
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1D
Page no. : | D-2
Line no.: | 28 - 30
Comment : | RE: Appendix D (your comment form does not permit Section: Appendix D or Section: D-1 to be entered) This process would only verify that the two records agree with each other, but not that either record reflected how the voter intended to cast his/her ballot. The definition of "independence" if the goal is the accuracy of the vote count as the voters intended, needs to be "independence" of the voter verified record from the voting system itself and independence from insiders within the voting system. This requires a "voter verified" record where verification of the actual record is performed by the voter. Having two records be independent of "each other" is not a logically sufficient condition for ensuring via audits that vote counts "as the voter intended" are correct and accurate.