EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Stanley A. Klein
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Citizen observations in Maryland, continued. The reallocation as setup failures of reports of candidates and other contests/issues missing from the ballot provided an opportunity to clarify a usage scenario stated in the FEC standards and the VVSG draft. There were 16 such failures reported, giving a failure rate of 1.65%. The FEC standards and the VVSG state a scenario that has preelection activity requiring 30 hours. The calculated failure rate implies a time of 2.7 hours, consistent with an overall preelection setup time of about 3 or 4 hours. It appears that the 30 hours may be for a machine used in Logic and Accuracy testing, and that a setup time of 3 or 4 hours more reasonably applies to other machines. This was confirmed in a discussion with a local election administration office.