EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Faith Gross
Organization : | Legal Center for People w/ Disabilities & Older
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7.1
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Comment : | In Colorado, the VVPAT will be the official ballot of record in a recount, effective 2010, or 2008 if certain conditions are met. Credit for this later implementation date goes to Commissioner Davidson, who, as Colorado’s Secretary of State, understood the importance of HAVA’s accessibility requirements for Colorado voters with disabilities. These dates were a compromise, proposed in part to provide more time for the access problems to be solved. The VVSG must set the highest access standards that are technologically feasible today and in the future. We must ensure that all voters with disabilities have every possible opportunity to cast their vote, including their VVPAT, as privately and independently as all other voters. Anything else will be a step back into the twentieth century. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, June 30, 2005, Denver, CO]