EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jordi Puiggali
Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.7.2.3
Page no. : | 51
Line no.: | 20,26
Comment : | General Considerations Section 6.8 details the security requirements for VVPAT systems. The requirements consider only one of the potential implementations of VVPAT systems. This implementation is based on a voting system composed of a voting terminal connected to a simple printer (as described in Sections 6.8.7.2.3 and 6.8.7.2.4). There are alternative implementations that use an independent audit module connected to the voting terminal and the printer to provide accessibility for blind voters and to enhance the security of standard VVPAT solutions. As discussed below, some of the requirements in this section need to be modified in order to allow some of these alternative implementations which represent innovative solutions that improve the security and accessibility of VVPAT systems.