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Name :   Kip Humphrey
Organization :   51 Capital March
Post Date :   9/9/2005

Section Comments
Section :  6.8.1
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Comment :  6.8.1.4 The paper record shall be used to conduct mandatory, random,  
manual, real-time, paper audits of the digital voting system.  
 
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Discussion:  
The electronic record, digital vote processing system, and electronic vote  
tabulation must be audited in real time without notifying the system of  
the auditing process ongoing. A minimum of 5% of paper ballots of  
record, selected entirely at random, will be directly and manually  
compared to the digital record at each node within the digital vote  
processing system. All digital vote processing systems are required to  
maintain an unbroken, fully auditable chain of custody of electronic vote  
records from the vote input device through to and including the electronic  
vote tabulator that produces the vote count of record. All digital vote  
processing systems that fail to provide an unbroken audit trail able to be audited by random, manual, real-time, audits using the paper ballot of  
record are unacceptable for use in elections.