EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Kip Humphrey
Organization : | 51 Capital March
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.1
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Comment : | 6.8.1.4 The paper record shall be used to conduct mandatory, random, manual, real-time, paper audits of the digital voting system. Voting System Vendor Pre-Voting Voting Post-Voting Discussion: The electronic record, digital vote processing system, and electronic vote tabulation must be audited in real time without notifying the system of the auditing process ongoing. A minimum of 5% of paper ballots of record, selected entirely at random, will be directly and manually compared to the digital record at each node within the digital vote processing system. All digital vote processing systems are required to maintain an unbroken, fully auditable chain of custody of electronic vote records from the vote input device through to and including the electronic vote tabulator that produces the vote count of record. All digital vote processing systems that fail to provide an unbroken audit trail able to be audited by random, manual, real-time, audits using the paper ballot of record are unacceptable for use in elections.