EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ron Crane
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8
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Comment : | 11. The Guidelines do not impose any kind of paper trail requirement. Vol. I, §6.8 mentions VVPAT, but it is entirely optional. Some kind of voter-verified paper trail requirement, preferably voter-verified paper ballot ("VVPB"), should be mandatory. Though VVPB does not remedy e-voting's many transparency and security shortcomings, it does permit voters directly to determine whether the human-readable portion of their ballot actually reflects their choices, and it does allow for the possibility of meaningful manual recounts.