EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | John S. Groh
Organization : | Election Systems & Software
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7.3.5.1
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Comment : | Voting Systems with electronic image displays shall not require page scrolling by the voter. Comment: I-2.2.7.3.5.1 : This is a very limiting requirement. Products, such as the AutoMARK, display one contest at a time and consider it a page. If the full contest information cannot be displayed on the screen, up and down scroll buttons are used for navigating through the information similar to scroll bar use with a display on a computer screen. Paging through the information is not necessarily clearer since it would be the same mechanism for going to new contests as continuing within the contest. This should be defined as a preference and be left to the evaluator of the equipment to judge adequacy. Recommended Change: Voting Systems with electronic image displays should not require page scrolling by the voter.