EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ron Crane
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.3.2
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Comment : | 8d. d. Nothing in the ballot programming sections (Vol. I, §2.3.2-3) prohibits vendors from supporting different ballot formats by the use of ballot-programming software that modifies the software contained in the election system. To maintain proper security, the Guidelines must specify that only data is to be modified, and, further, that all ballot programming data must be human-readable, and its format must be completely described by public documentation. This requirement helps prevent an unscrupulous vendor from modifying the voting application itself, or from hiding information in its ballot programming data that could be used to tell the voting application when and how to cheat.