EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Alfie Charles
Organization : | Sequoia Voting Systems
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.4.1
Page no. : | 41
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Comment : | Volume I Section 6, page 41, Section 6.8.4.1 The requirement is correct, however, the discussion contemplates the preservation of a spoiled electronic record. There is no logical reason to store a “spoiled” electronic record. One of the benefits of electronic voting is that only the voter approved electronic records are accepted and retained. Voters who make mistakes need not spoil an entire ballot; they simply need to correct their list of selections before the ballot is submitted. It makes sense to permit revisions to a paper ballot record and to retain records that are rejected by voters; however, it doesn’t make sense to retain electronic ballot images of ballots that were never finalized by the voter.