EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.7.2.1.3.1
Page no. : | 28
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Comment : | In this requirement, "This review [of the wireless documentation] shall be done either through an open and public review or by a subject area recognized expert." implies that the accredited test lab does not have the capability to conduct a test against the requirement in 6.7.2.1.3. If the lab was accredited to test voting systems against the standard, then they would have met the criteria necessary to perform the test in requirement 6.7.2.1.3. The test lab should have access to an expert on the subject matter as part of meeting their accreditation requirements. There are other requirements in the standard which need a subject matter expert to qualify them, but that expert is not explicitly called out in those requirements. If the test lab is accredited to test voting systems against this standard, then this requirement (6.7.2.1.3.1) should not be necessary. Proposed change: Remove this requirement.