EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Kathy Dopp
Organization : | National Election Data Archive
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1D
Page no. : | D-4
Line no.: | 5 - 7
Comment : | RE: Appendix D (your comment form does not permit Section: Appendix D or Section: D-1 to be entered) This is a test that the two records match, but it is not an "independent" audit of the accuracy of vote counts as intended by voters because it does not check either record "independently" of the voting system insiders who program i. Programs could easily inaccurately read back the electronic records - even if the verification station and the capture station are independently programmed. Unless there is a medium that the voter can directly verify, then the ballots cannot be audited independently of the voting system and the voter has no assurance that his vote was even cast, let alone counted, correctly.