EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Guy Sturino
Organization : | Retired
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 7
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Comment : | As a retired Qualtiy Control Director of billion-dollar world wide corporations, I want to express my agreement with the opinion of Kathy Dopp, who wrote: ************************ Appendix D regarding "Independent Dual Verification" contains logic errors. For one example, if one is trying to ensure the accuracy of vote counts by auditing, then one needs to have records to audit that are independent of insiders within the system, not records that are independent of each other. In banking and financial industries, audits are done independently of insiders within the system in order to detect errors that could be innocently or maliciously introduced by insiders. Voting systems should provide the same protections. So the Independent Dual Verification (IDV) measures proposed in Appendix D, while good for system reliability or redundancy, are wholly inadequate to protect our voting systems from insider errors or embezzlement because the IDV audit methods proposed are most often not independent of insiders within the voting systems. To claim that IDV systems as described in Appendix D would ensure the accuracy of vote counts, is incorrect. ********************** Again, I agree with the above analysis and hope to see these concerns addressed in the final draft of the VVSG. Sincerely, Guy T. Sturino 1400 Kara Court Virginia Beach, VA 23454