RE: [election-services-comment] Public Comment

["Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>]

The issue of failure is absolutely vital to electronic voting systems. The
current work of the Election and Voter Services TC in OASIS is purely to
look at standardizing the interface messages between different parts of the
election and voting environment. At first sight, machine failure does not
appear to be an issue. However, there could potentially be issues that
affect us. For example, what if a system records and relays votes, but fails
before sending its audit message? Perhaps something we should be
considering.

Farah - should this be on the agenda for the next meeting?

Regards

Paul Spencer

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> Sent: 10 May 2004 18:52
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> Subject: [election-services-comment] Public Comment
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> Comment from: almarc@att.net
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> All voting machines are subject to failure from a variety of
> causes:  machine malfunction, deliberate hacking by humans,
> accidental human errors in operating the voting system, etc.
> Your standards must include a requirement that every voting
> system  must have a capability for accurate and complete recovery
> from any kind of failure, and that recovery (by recounts, etc.)
> must be completely transparent to candidates, their
> representatives, and the public at large. Respectfully, Marc A.
> Nerenstone Fort Meyers, FL 33919 almarc@att.net
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