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CRT
Teleconference Draft Agenda:
Attendees:
Alan Goldfine, Allan Eustis, David Flater, John Crickenberger (NVLAP),
John Wack, Mat Masterson (EAC), Michael Kass, Michael Koo, Nelson Hastings,
Paul Miller, Sharon Laskowski, Wendy Havens Administrative
Updates (Allan Eustis):
Reliability
and Accuracy Benchmarks (David Flater): The
document posted on the web (see above) reflects the changes that were
discussed at last weeks meeting. David went over several items in the
paper. It was decided to keep the 120,000 voting sessions for EBM ballots.
There will be a 1 in 500 allowance for paper feed errors/jams. It was
decided that there would be no more than 6 errors (failures) allowed of
any sort pending Paul Miller's final review. David was planning to finalize
document at end of day so any comments were due immediately. E-PollBooks
(John Wack): John
Wack brought up the topic of e-pollbooks. The EAC requested the TGDC to
take a look at writing requirements for e-pollbooks - at a minimum in
regards to the use of them for ballot activation. Due to the short time
left until the next iteration of the VVSG is due out, it was decided that
we could not provide more than high-level requirements. That is what David
Flater has done - he has added a device class in the VVSG for ballot activators.
The
specific questions today were in regards to allowing networked devices,
such as epollbooks, to also activate ballots. (The requirement in the
VVSG currently states that any part of the voting system can not be externally
networked and if epollbooks are used as ballot activators, they are part
of the voting system.) Some states are currently using the networked epollbooks
to activate ballots. The main concerns are security, availability and
privacy. Paul Miller understands the availability issue being a major
concern, but also thinks there are possibilities of handling this by having
backup ballot activation techniques. This topic will be discussed by all
three TGDC subcommittees on April 24th.
[* Pursuant
to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the TGDC is charged with directing
NIST in performing voting systems research so that the TGDC can fulfill
its role of recommending technical standards for voting equipment to the
EAC. This teleconference discussion served the purposes of the CRT subcommittee
of the TGDC to direct NIST staff and coordinate its voting-related research
relevant to the VVSG 2007. Discussions on this telecon are preliminary,
pre-decisional and do not necessarily reflect the views of NIST or the
TGDC.]
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