EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ron Crane
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | 10. The Guidelines contain significant loopholes surrounding testing.16 The Guidelines do not require test results to be made public,17 and even appear to endorse keeping highly-relevant portions of them (if not all of them) secret.18 Test results describe the performance of systems that citizens paid for, and that are used to count their votes. We have every reason to know how these systems perform, and the vendors have no valid reason to hide their performance. The Guidelines should unambiguously require the test labs to publish all testing results and observations on the internet promptly following each round of testing.