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Name :   Ian S. Piper
Organization :   Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date :   9/29/2005

Section Comments
Section :  6.8.6.5
Page no. :  47
Line no.:  10
Comment :  In this requirement, "The voting system should generate and store a digital signature for each electronic record.", it doesn't seem practical to store a digital signature for each electronic record, when a single digital signature for the whole record file would meet the intent of providing a method of verifying the integrity of the electronic records.  There is no discussion in this requirement indicating the necessity for a digital signature for "each" electronic record.  If practically applied to the file instead of each record, this requirement can be changed to a "shall".

Proposed change:  Replace the requirement with the following language:  "The voting system shall generate and store a digital signature for the electronic record file."