EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 4.1.2
Page no. : | 4-2
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Comment : | For the requirement "The requirements of this section apply to…regardless of the ownership of the software... ♦ Software that operates on ballot printers, vote counting devices, and other hardware typically installed at...", the intent is to cover those voting devices that print a voted ballot that records selections made by the voter at the polling place, but there are 'printers' used to create blank paper ballots (either optically scan or hand counted) which by a strict interpretation would also fall under this requirement. This interpretation would mean that print shops would have to certify the software which operates the printers that they use to create a blank unvoted ballot. As that interpretation of the requirement would be unrealistic and unintentional, there should be a clarification of the ballot printer's intended purpose or to remove the 'ballot printer' item from the bullet list as that item would already be covered under the previous bullet that is applicable specifically to voting devices. Proposed change: Remove, from the second bullet, the term "ballot printers".