EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Eugene Lee
Organization : | Asian Pacific American Legal Ctr. of So. CA
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | .20.2
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Comment : | General Comments on Volume II, Section 2, Description of Technical Data Package Although we understand that this material is not new material and has been essentially carried over from the 2002 Voting Systems Standards, we would appreciate the opportunity to offer the following comments on this material: • Vendors should include in their documentation accompanying the voting system a statement that encourages jurisdictions to seek the assistance of community-based organizations (CBOs) during the process of determining the vocabulary and format of language used in Alternative Language Voting Stations. In our examinations of onscreen and audio instructions used in prototype systems, we have found that the level of vocabulary was too high for the average language minority voter and that instructions used words that were unfamiliar to the language minority voter. Our understanding is that jurisdictions will often have flexibility in adjusting translations of instructions. In the documentation for their products, vendors should instruct jurisdictions to work with CBOs in this adjustment process.