EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Lillie Coney
Organization : | National Committee for Voting Integrity
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | In the draft version of voting system guidelines, too little focus is placed on the importance of conducting audits of election results. Post-election evaluation of the results is fundamental to election integrity. For audits to be credible, the same vendor that supplied the voting system being audited should not perform the audit. It is important to know when election systems perform as expected, and when they do not. For this reason, independent, verifiable, and transparent audits of election results should be routine. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, August 23, 2005, Denver]