EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Kathy Dopp
Organization : | National Election Data Archive
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1D
Page no. : | D-4
Line no.: | 27 - 28
Comment : | RE: Appendix D (your comment form does not permit Section: Appendix D or Section: D-1 to be entered) It isn't practical to inspect and test to try to ensure the integrity of the vote counting programs because: (a.) many voting systems use microsoft windows operating systems with hundreds of other programs on them, including drivers, any one of which could be used to tamper with vote counts; and (b.) computer scientists claim that it is impossible to test enough to find all bugs; and (c.)most election officials do not have the resources or expert computer technicians to do such testing before, during, and after elections on each voting machine.