EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Cem Kaner
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | I am not advocating the replacement of formal, independent verification and validation with volunteer testing. These Guidelines should require extensive formal testing. And, despite the very serious problems of conflict of interest, the Guidelines should probably still assume that the vendor of the system under test will be the organization that pays the (not-really-so-) independent test lab. However, in addition to this testing, it is imperative that any member of the public be allowed to acquire (at a reasonable price that provides appropriate profit for the vendor) any voting system, that they be allowed to test these systems, and that there be no restrictions on the publication of the test results. Such a purchase would not necessarily involve delivery of the source code for the voting system. A great deal of testing can be done without reference to the underlying implementation details of a program under test.