EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Bayer
Organization : | Institute for Clean Elections
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1C
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Comment : | ELECTION AUDIT MODEL FOR ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES AND SYSTEMS DAVID BAYER SEPTEMBER 2005 Part I of V Election Day Procedures and the Process of Voting in an election which uses an electronic voting system in which votes are registered electronically, the following procedures will be applicable: The voting system, shall produce or require the use of an individual voter-verified paper record of the voter's vote that shall be made available for inspection and verification by the voter before the voter's vote is cast. I-Voter-verified Record: Voting systems required to produce an individual voter-verified paper record which includes any of the following: (1) A paper ballot prepared by the voter for the purpose of being read by an optical scanner. (2) A paper ballot prepared by the voter to be mailed to an election official, whether from a domestic or overseas location. (3) A paper ballot created through the use of a ballot marking device. (4) A paper printout of the voter's vote produced by a touch screen or other electronic voting machine if, in each case, the record permits the voter to verify his or her recorded vote.