EAC Seeks Public Comment on a Range of Issues and Programs

[Wilms]

Submit a Public Comment

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is accepting comments from the public on the following proposals and topics. For more information, including how to submit a comment, click on the links below.


Grants
The Accessible Voting Technology Initiative and the Voting System Pre-Election Logic and Accuracy Testing and Post-Election Audit Initiative

HAVA Funding

* Funding Advisory Opinion Requests (go here to view funding advisory opinions that have been issued)


Research
Evaluation of EAC Educational Products New

2010 Election Administration and Voting Survey New


Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

* View and Comment on Proposed Draft Revisions to 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG v.1.1). For information about voting system testing, certification and voluntary guidelines, click here.

http://www.eac.gov/News/public-comment

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. I have a comment - how about a "lemon law" for voting machines

like we have for cars?

[Bill Bored]

2. This is the plot to kill software-independent voting systems

"Proposed Draft Revisions to 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG v.1.1)?":wtf:

Read this and see how the EAC never approved the 2007 standards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_independence

A voting system is software-independent if an undetected change or error in its software cannot cause an undetectable change or error in an election outcome.

Now read the Software Independence Resolution and see how the EAC decided NOT to act:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_independence#TGDC_Resolution

Election officials and vendors have appropriately responded to the growing complexity of voting systems by adding more stringent access controls, encryption, testing, and physical security to election procedures and systems. The TGDC has considered current threats to voting systems and, at this time, finds that security concerns do not warrant replacing deployed voting systems where EAC Best Practices are used.

To provide auditability and proactively address the increasing difficulty of protecting against all prospective threats, the TGDC directs STS to write requirements for the next version of the VVSG requiring the next generation of voting systems to be software independent. The TGDC directs STS and HFP to draft usability and accessibility requirements to ensure that all voters can verify the independent voting record.

The TGDC further directs STS and Core Requirements and Testing Subcommittees (CRT) to draft requirements to ensure that systems that produce independently verifiable voting records are reliable and provide adequate support for audits.

That was Dec. 2006! Obviously a carefully drafted pragmatic compromise to require paper ballots or records in the NEXT (2007) iteration of the standards -- standards that the EAC NEVER ADOPTED!

Now they want public comments on a range of issues and programs and some half-assed "Version 1.1" of the 4-year-old 2005 standards?:thumbsdown:

[Bill Bored]

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