EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.6.10.3
Page no. : | 50
Line no.: | 10
Comment : | There is a contradiction between the following two requirements: "6.8.6.8.1 The paper record should contain error correcting codes for the purposes of detecting read errors and for preventing other markings on the paper record to be misinterpreted when machine reading the paper record.", and "6.8.6.10.3 The barcode shall not contain any information other than the paper record’s human readable content and digital signature information." The first requirement indicates that there should be error correcting codes in the machine readable format, yet the second requirement precludes those codes from being in the machine readable format. This requirement (6.8.6.10.3) should include the error correcting codes in its list of allowable content in the barcode. Proposed change: Add the words ", error correcting codes" after the words "human readable content, so that it reads as follows: "The barcode shall not contain any information other than the paper record's human readable content, error correcting codes and digital signature information."