EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Dennis Vadura
Organization : | AccuPoll
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.7.2.2
Page no. : | 51
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Comment : | Section 6.8.7.2.2: The intent of this requirement is to ensure the integrity of the VVPAT (i.e., a VVPAT for each electronic ballot record). That is what the requirement should say. There may be multiple ways of ensuring the integrity of the VVPAT that can accomplish this objective. For example, this section precludes ballot marking VVPAT systems such as the ES&S AutoMARK. We suggest that the wording be changed as follows: “In VVPAT systems where the voter does not handle the paper, the paper path between the printing, viewing, and storage of the paper record shall be protected and sealed from access except by authorized election officials”.