EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Lillie Coney
Organization : | National Committee for Voting Integrity
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Specific areas of concern are that optical scan precinct or central count ballot tabulation systems should document a chain of custody for optical scan marked and unmarked ballots, ballot markers, Precinct-count ballot readers, and automated central tabulating mechanisms. The voluntary guidelines should recommend that the Precinct-count ballot reader and central count tabulators can read to ballot marked with a number two soft lead pencil, which should include a dark stroke crossing the voting target on its long dimension and half the width of the target should register as a vote. In addition, precinct count systems should provide each polling location an optical ballot reader. The ballot reader should have its setting to detect overvotes turned on at the central county facility prior to being sent to polling locations. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, August 23, 2005, Denver]