EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Alfie Charles
Organization : | Sequoia Voting Systems
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 1.6.2
Page no. : | 1-10
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Comment : | We agree with the advice to states in lines 20-23 that state certification ought to focus on state functional requirements rather than a duplication of federal testing processes. Failure to adopt this model will continue to add costs and delays to the implementation of voting technology enhancements. To further facilitate state certification, especially for smaller states that are unable or ill-equipped to conduct comprehensive state-specific testing on their own, we encourage the EAC to develop a federal test of state-specific requirements which could include optional functional demonstrations of state-specific needs concurrent with the federal tests. We envision a certification application for VSTL testing which would include a request for certification to a particular version of federal standards as well as testing for various individual state-specific features which would be provided to the EAC and testing laboratories by the individual states that choose to participate in this one-stop shop for combined federal/state testing.