EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Fernando Morales
Organization : | Registered voter of the U.S.A.
Post Date : | 8/24/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7.4
Page no. : | 2-42
Line no.: | 13, 14
Comment : | 2.- Paragraph with “forbids the issuance of a receipt to the voter” should be rewritten Volume 1, Pg 2-42; lines 13 and 14 read: “Among other practices, this forbids the issuance of a receipt to the voter that would provide proof to another how he or she voted.” Rationale: Forbidding the issuance of a receipt to the voter is not sufficient, as it doesn’t fully comply with HAVA because it does not preclude the voter from taking a picture or recording the audio from the voting machine or paper ballot. Lines 11 and 12 of Pg 2-42 of the VVSG state: “Privacy in this context, including the property of the voter being unable to disclose his or her vote, ensures that the voter can make choices based solely on his or her own preferences without intimidation or inhibition” Therefore the wording shall be replaced as follows: “Among other practices, this forbids the issuance of a receipt to the voter that would provide proof to another how he or she voted and shall prevent voters from obtaining any form of receipt that would provide proof to another how he or she voted.”