IEEE P1622 UOCAVA Blank Ballot Delivery Use Case

IEEE Standards Working Group P. 1622 on Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange Current Project Status    

  October 24/25 P1622 Meeting Agenda and Details   The IEEE Standards Working Group P. 1622 on Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange is currently developing a standard and associated XML schema to assist the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) and US States in achieving the goals of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) and the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, i.e., to assist overseas military and citizens in participating fully in US elections. The UOCAVA requires that uniformed and overseas voters have access to ballot information so that they can cast their ballots from overseas locations. Distributing blank paper ballots to overseas voters using conventional postal mail can involve considerable delays, imperiling their timely return.     The P. 1622 standard, in general, serves the purpose of electronic distribution of blank ballots to uniformed and overseas voters, which can significantly improve timely access to blank ballots. This standard assists FVAP and state and local election officials in making available electronic blank ballots to voters, which can then be printed, returned and processed in a manner directly akin to absentee voting. Specifically, it provides an XML schema in Election Markup Language (EML) for the purposes of exporting from Voter Registration Databases (VRDB) and Election Management Systems (EMS), in a common format, the necessary jurisdictional information and ballot definition information to facilitate automated building of electronic blank ballots.         

• IEEE P. 1622 description and information
  
  
• Current version of UOCAVA blank ballot distribution standard [PDF]
  
  
• Reference draft of OASIS EML V7 including example files
  
  
• Current version of audit standard [PDF] [MS-Word] 
      
• OASIS EML information 
    
• OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) tool 
       CAM tutorial
       Toolkit
       Background    

   

• Meeting of the IEEE Standards Working Group P. 1622 on Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange (February 8 & 9, 2011)  
  
  
• NIST Workshop on a Common Data Format for Electronic Voting Systems, October 29-30, 2009
  
  
  

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