EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 4.2.3
Page no. : | 4-4
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Comment : | The requirement "Voting system application software, including Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, shall be designed in a modular fashion. However, COTS software is not required to be inspected for compliance with this requirement." contains a contradiction. In the first sentence it is stated that COTS software shall be designed in a modular fashion, but in the second sentence COTS software is directly excluded from this requirement. Proposed change: Remove from the first sentence the following language ", including Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software,"