EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Sanford Morganstein
Organization : | Populex Corporation
Post Date : | 8/26/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.4.2
Page no. : | 41
Line no.: | 24
Comment : | Discussion: Here again, DRE machines are different from ballot marking systems. It is not always clear in ballot marking systems, what the “voting station” is. With clarification, this is a positive requirement that should be kept for all systems. We recommend the following: “A DRE system shall, in the presence of the voter, mark the paper record as being accepted by the voter or spoiled. A ballot marking system shall provide a means or procedure for an election official, in the presence of the voter, to accept a ballot (such as scanning it or placing it in a ballot box) or to mark a ballot as spoiled.”