EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Matt Bishop
Organization : | University of California Davis
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 3.2.1
Page no. : | 3-4
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Comment : | For example, the requirement that “a maximum acceptable error rate . . . of one in 5000,000 ballot positions” [7, Vol I §3.2.1] is related to the requirement that the votes be counted accurately. But the exact relationship of some of the aspects of this property to imagined threats is unclear. Why is the number 5,000,000 and not (say) 500,000 or 100,000,000? To determine this requires knowing the exact threat and requirement the standard developers had in mind. The standard does not articulate either.