Nat. Inst. Science & Tech (Feds): Major Electonic Voting Seminar Wed 29th

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MAJOR MEETING ON ELECTRONIC VOTING IN DC AREA (MD BURBS)

and PDF handouts at this link if you can’t attend
http://vote.nist.gov/meeting20060329.htm#material



TGDC Plenary Meeting, March 29, 2006
(or go directly down to: Written Meeting Materials)


When: 8:55 am- 5:30 pm EST, March 29, 2006

Where: NIST-Gaithersburg Campus (Red Auditorium)
100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8900

Purpose: To act in the public interest to assist the Executive Director of the Election Assistance Commission. To review and approve draft documents that will form the bases for recommendations for future voluntary voting system guidelines.
The draft documents respond to tasks defined in resolutions passed at previous Technical Guideline Development Committee meetings.

Topics: Help America Vote Act requirements for technical guidance related to human factors and privacy; security and transparence; and core requirements and testing of voting systems. Preliminary material to be discussed at the meeting will be available for public review at this web site in early March.

Status: The meeting is open to the public. No registration fee is required. NIST security regulations require pre-registration by all attendees. Pre-registration closed March 22, 2006.

Summary: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (the “Development Committee”) has scheduled a plenary meeting for March 29, 2006. The Development Committee was established to act in the public interest to assist the Executive Director of the Election Assistance Commission in the development of the voluntary voting system guidelines.

[Kurovski]

1. K&R.(nt)

[mopinko]

2. kick

i will be attending the "RETABULATION OF
RESULTS FOR THE MARCH 21, 2006, GENERAL PRIMARY
ELECTION" (whatever the hell that means) in dupage county. i'll let y'all know how that goes.

hope a du'er can attend and report, tho.

[mopinko]

3. looks like there will be a webcast nt

[FogerRox]

4. Kn R

[Wilms]

5. Hey techies. This may get interesting.

DRAFT VVSG Performance and Workmanship Requirements

Alan Goldfine

March 17, 2006

This document is a draft of a subset of VVSG 2007, corresponding to the
draft outline found at

http://vote.nist.gov/TGDC/Outline-jpw-9-31-051.doc.


Page 2

Note: The Availability requirements in the 2002 VSS (I.3.4.5) have been
deleted.


Page 3

Note: This 163 hour value of the MTBF was a live issue within the IEEE
committee. Proposals were made to increase it to 1500 hours. However, the
163-hour figure is still in the latest P1583 draft standard.

snip


Maybe they've been reading VoteTrustUSA

DRE Reliability: Failure by Design?
By Howard Stanislevic

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1057&Itemid=26


Voting Systems Batch Test Results – Reliability
By John Gideon and Howard Stanislevic

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1054&Itemid=26

[Bill Bored]

6. Make that 15,000 hours!

The bottom line is: how many machines is it OK to have fail on Election Day?

[Bill Bored]

7. Webcast archived here:

http://www.eastbaymedia.com/nist/tgdc-032906/