EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Rebecca Mercuri
Organization : | Notable Software, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 3.4
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Comment : | The reliability of voting systems can impact election results as well as ballot availability and enfranchisement. The legacy low Mean Time Between Failures, that allows for nearly a 10% equipment malfunction rate during election day, has been deemed unacceptable by members of the engineering community, such as Stan Kline (as per his comments submitted to the EAC). The MTBF level is currently set well below that which should be achievable by the vendors using present-day technology.