EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | DRE Display
Definition : |
Comment : | In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following, picking up with the letter D, having completed A through C in previous comments. As before, in each case, I am quoting the original and then offering an alternative definition. DRE Display: Part of the DRE that displays the electronic record. DRE Display: The display used for presenting the ballot to the voter and for displaying the selections made by the voter to the voter. This may be integrated into a single display screen, or it may consist of a ballot label with a physically separate display to indicate voter choices, for example, lights by or under each voting position on the ballot label. -- Comment: The definition originally given does not apply to a number of current DRE systems. The one used in India, the old Microvote system, and several full-face DRE systems all use paper ballot labels with lights to show selections, either shining through the paper from behind or using illuminated push buttons.