EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.4.4
Page no. : | 42
Line no.: | 8
Comment : | In this requirement, "Following the close of polls, a means shall be provided to reconcile the number of spoiled paper records with the number of occurrences of spoiled electronic records, and procedures shall be in place to address any discrepancies.", it is impractical for a DRE to preserve a spoiled electronic record. Electronic records are not stored (cast) until after the voter has accepted the paper audit trail record (which is in compliance with 6.8.4.7.) After the election, reconciliation can easily be accomplished by comparing the "Accepted" paper records against the stored electronic records, which only contains "Accepted" cast vote records. Proposed change: Remove this requirement.