EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Janna Starr
Organization : | Disability Policy Collaboration
Post Date : | 9/28/2005
General Comments
Comment : | DRE voting stations shall allow the voter to change a vote within a race before advancing to the next race. Consistent with election law, the voting process shall not introduce any bias for or against any of the choices to be made by the voter. In both visual and aural formats, candidates and choices shall be presented in an equivalent manner. Voters should have access to sample ballots and all relevant instructions before the voting session. Voters should have an opportunity to practice voting before the actual voting session, especially for DRE systems. The voting process shall provide clear instructions and assistance so as to allow voters to successfully execute and cast their ballots independently. The voting station should not visually present a single race spread over two pages or two columns. Voting stations with electronic image displays shall not require page scrolling by the voter. The voting station shall provide unambiguous feedback regarding the voters selection, such as displaying a checkmark beside the selected option or conspicuously changing its appearance.