EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Linda Lamone
Organization : | National Association of State Election Directors
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | NIST provides technical leadership for vital components of the nation’s technology infrastructure. Because of your well- deserved reputation throughout the nation and the world, any guidelines you issue will be compelling. When you issue the VVPAT guidelines please clarify that VVPAT is a partial solution and the guidelines are being issued in response to the demands from a handful of states. Please clarify that NIST has only begun its work to develop standards for Security and Transparency, Human Factors and Privacy, and Core Requirements and Testing. Strong public trust and confidence in the nation's voting systems is essential to our democracy, and the public needs to know that VVPAT is certainly not the only solution, and probably not the best solution. [Statements submitted to NIST Technical Guidelines Development Committee]