EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Justin Moore
Organization : | Duke
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | I was disappointed in how vague and ineffective these standards are. We are talking about establishing standards for protecting our democratic process, and we can't even bother to establish FAA-level or FDA-style standards for our voting equipment. I was also deeply upset by the level of control the vendors had over the process. The IEEE working group that did most of the heavy lifting was chaired by a vendor employee. Reports from the meetings indicated that the committee members showed a great amount of deference to existing systems, as opposed to creating the write standards. In short, these standards were written to meet the products, and not the other way around.