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By EAC Media Release
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July 01, 2009 |
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has released a report on voter registration statistics in accordance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). It presents information provided by the states on the number of registered voters, the registration process and voter registration list maintenance. The full report can be dowloaded here, and the data are available here.
The report covers registration information from after the 2006 general election through the 2008 general election. The following highlights are among the findings. |
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By Election Assistance Commission
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February 24, 2009 |
Transparency and Voter Access Hallmarks of her Tenure
 Commissioner Rosemary E. Rodriguez today announced her resignation from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), effective February 28, 2009. She is returning home to Denver to serve as the State Director for United States Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado.
“It has been an honor to serve with Commissioners Beach, Hillman, Davidson, and former Commissioner Hunter," said Commissioner Rodriguez. "They are committed to implementing the Help America Vote Act and are distinguished in their service to their country. I am proud to know them. I urge my colleagues to continue directing resources to the federal government’s first voting system certification program. Conducting thorough reviews of voting systems and holding program participants accountable is more important than ever, and we must properly fund and support these efforts.
“It has also been an honor to work with the EAC's staff,” Commissioner Rodriguez continued. “Due in large part to the hard work and diligence of its staff, the EAC has accomplished a great deal with very few resources. In just a few years, we have adopted voting system guidelines, built a voting system certification program from the ground up, provided training materials for election officials, conducted research on a host of issues, and provided voter resources in six languages. I am very proud of them, and I will always be grateful for the work they have done on behalf of America’s voters.”
During Commissioner Rodriguez’s tenure at the EAC she focused on transparency, accountability and increased voter access. As EAC chair, she also focused on making internal improvements and providing more support to EAC program staff.
Using her national platform as chair, she urged the recruitment of 2 million poll workers in 2008, more cooperation between voter registration groups and election officials and better service for military and overseas voters and veterans in long-term care facilities. Other initiatives include brown bag lunches with the public to get additional input; a series of workshops about election administration in the months leading up to the 2008 general election; and a policy requiring the release of public meeting agendas 21 days prior.
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By Cem Kaner, J.D., Ph.D. Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
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February 22, 2009 |
The following open letter was sent along with detailed comments (click here to download) to the Election Assistance Commission on February 20, 2009. The EAC Standards Board will meet February 26-27 in Orlando.
Dear Commissioners:
I am concerned by recent developments in the updating of the Voluntary
Voting System Guidelines (VVSG).
Unless I misunderstand your intentions, your current approach will not
implement most of the 2007 draft of the VVSG but will instead make
revisions to VVSG-2005 that:
(a) fail to implement most of the security-improvement provisions of
the 2007 amendments to VVSG
(b) change the testing effort in ways that, on balance, will probably
make testing less expensive for the vendor but less likely to expose
defects in the software
(c) potentially fail to improve the ease, cost, accuracy and public
visibility of the task of auditing election results
(d) do somewhat improve usability and accessibility characteristics of
voting systems.
In addition, Board of Advisors Resolution 2007-D12 recommends that EAC
remove all requirements that mandate election procedures instead of
equipment standards. I am unsure of the scope of your authority in this
regard but the variation in local election procedures is enormous and
there are credible research reports that even minimal standards of
control (such as reconciling the count of voters against the count of
votes cast in a precinct) are sometimes not present.
Just as hanging chads were probably the result of poor local practices
(not emptying the trays containing waste from punched ballots) rather
than equipment defect or voter error, improper or inadequate practices
with any type of voting equipment can wipe out those benefits
(reliability, security, usability, accessibility, auditability) that
might otherwise have been available. Controlling the equipment without
setting baselines for election procedures will not do much to help
Americans vote in ways that get their votes accurately received and
counted.
I believe these developments reflect a grave error and I urge you to
reconsider.
Cem Kaner, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
www.kaner.com www.testingeducation.org http://www.satisfice.com/kaner/ |
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By U.S. Election Assistance Commission
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October 29, 2008 |
Follows Action Taken by National Institute of Standards and Technology
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today notified
SysTest Laboratories Inc. of its intent to suspend the laboratory’s
accreditation based upon actions taken by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). SysTest
is one of five laboratories that were accredited by the EAC to test
voting systems under the EAC’s voluntary program. The EAC accredited
SysTest on February 21, 2007 based on a recommendation from NIST.
NIST
suspended SysTest due to numerous non-conformities with the NIST
Handbook 150-22 Voting System Testing, which sets forth the procedures,
requirements and guidance for the accreditation of testing and
calibration laboratories by the National Voting Laboratory
Accreditation Program (NVLAP). Non-conformities included failure to
create and validate test methods, improper documentation of testing and
unqualified personnel. Section 2.4 of EAC’s Voting System Test Laboratory Program Manual
requires all voting system test laboratories to hold “a valid
accreditation from NIST/NVLAP.” Pursuant to Section 5.4 of the Manual,
the EAC today notified SysTest of the Commission’s intent to suspend
its accreditation. SysTest has three days to respond to the EAC’s
action. If SysTest cannot refute the NIST suspension, the EAC will
suspend SysTest requiring the laboratory to immediately halt all
testing under the EAC program.
As a result of NIST’s action,
the EAC program director will issue notification informing
manufacturers of their right to request a change of test laboratory in
accordance with the EAC program manual.
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Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
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By U.S. Election Assistance Commission
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October 07, 2008 |
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has accredited CIBER,
Inc. to be the fifth voting system test laboratory under the
commission’s Voting System Certification and Testing Program. Click here
for more information about CIBER and other EAC accredited labs.
Commissioners also approved EAC staff recommendations regarding CIBER,
including on-site testing observation and technical assessments as
provided under Section 4.5.2 of the EAC Lab Manual.
Commissioners
accredited CIBER, Inc. following a recommendation by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and after an independent
EAC review of non-technical issues such as conflict-of-interest
policies, organizational structure, and recordkeeping protocols. In
addition to CIBER, Inc., Wyle Laboratories, InfoGuard Labs, iBeta
Quality Assurance and SysTest Labs have also been accredited by EAC.
All five labs will test against the 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. |
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