EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | .20.7.2
Page no. : | (Vol 2) 7-1
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Comment : | Regarding this test in Vol 2, Section 7.2, if a vendor is already externally audited and certified for its quality assurance program, then that certification from the accredited external auditors should be sufficient to satisfy this test. If the a vendor's quality assurance program meets a quality system standard (such as an ISO 9001:2000 implementation) and also meets the criteria required by the VVSG, then the test lab can review the accreditation of those external auditors and thereafter accept the external auditor's certifications of the vendor's compliance to that quality assurance program. Costs in the certification process could be reduced if the auditing of the quality assurance program didn't have to be duplicated by two separate but equally qualified auditors. Proposed change: Add the following sentence to the beginning of the first paragraph "If a vendor has an active certification of its quality assurance program by an accredited external auditor, and through review of the contents of the vendor's quality program the test lab finds that the quality program meets the requirements of this VVSG standard, then the active certification from that external auditor will suffice as qualification against this requirement of the standard. Otherwise, the test lab shall design and ..."