EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.4.3
Page no. : | 42
Line no.: | 1
Comment : | In this requirement, "The voting station should mark and preserve electronic and paper records that have been spoiled.", it is impractical for a DRE to preserve a spoiled electronic record. Electronic records are not stored (cast) until after the voter has accepted the paper audit trail record (which is in compliance with 6.8.4.7.) After the election, reconciliation can easily be accomplished by comparing the "Accepted" paper records against the stored electronic records, which only contains "Accepted" cast vote records. Proposed change: Remove this requirement.