Re: [election-services] FYI: BREAKING: NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTERECOMMENDSSCRAPPING TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING SYSTEMS!

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@SIMS.Berkeley.EDU>]

On 11/29/06, David RR Webber <david@drrw.info> wrote:
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> Kudos to NIST on making this assessment,

Actually, what NIST is recommending is "Software Independence":

http://vote.nist.gov/meeting20061204.htm
http://vote.nist.gov/DraftWhitePaperOnSIinVVSG2007-20061120.pdf

Which, if adopted, would mean that paperless DREsof which
touchscreens are a subsetwill not be certifiable by the EAC when the
2007 VVSG come into effect in Dec. 2009. -Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
PhD Student, UC Berkeley, School of Information
<http://josephhall.org/>