EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Heleni Thayre
Organization : | MA Citizens for Voting Integrity
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8
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Comment : | Sec. 301 of HAVA when taken in toto indicates that a permanent paper record accurately reflecting the choice of the voter is required of all voting systems used in elections after Jan. 1 2006 and that therefore a voter verified ballot is required by HAVA. Two lines when taken together with "(b) Voting System Defined" and "(5) Error Rates" require this interpretation. HAVA states that "(B) (i) The voting system shall produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for such a system." "(B) (iii) The paper record produced under subparagraph (A) shall be available as an official record for any recount conducted with respect to any election in which the system is used." In addition, to quote from page 141, Section E-5 of the 1990 FEC Voting System Standards: "Voter confirmation does not, however, guarantee that the voter choices are correctly recorded and updated in memory registers.