EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Paul Walmsley
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Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
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Comment : | [Comment 3 of 4] Overview of Live Auditing Procedures for Incorporation in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines The proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines are missing guidelines for live auditing, and should include them. "Live auditing" is the process of independent testing of voting system functional units during an election, via methods that do not modify, create, or destroy votes on live ballots. Live auditing is similar to the 'parallel testing' process described in [1] and [2]; however, modern auditable voting system designs enable live auditing to take place without having to take voting machines out of service or to otherwise affect the voting process. Existing voting system test approaches are inadequate to verify voting system reliability. Currently, election officials perform "logic and accuracy tests" before, and in some cases after, the election. However, even if these tests are successful, they disclose nothing about the functionality of the system _during_ the election. Logic and accuracy tests also generally do not use live ballots, and are often run in a 'test' mode on the voting systems. The attached file contains the full text of this comment. This comment is also available at http://www.booyaka.com/~paul/ea/eac-20050930/live-audit-overview.txt
Attach file : | live-audit-overview.txt