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Name :   Warren Smith
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

Section Comments
Section :  6.8.7.5
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Comment :  However, fortunately, there are numerous guidelines in sec 6.8  
concerning what voting machines that miraculously DO happen to go beyond  
guideline requirements by providing paper trails, should be like, and I largely agree with them.  

But 6.8.7.5 is a silly completely undefined requirement. Here would be  
an improvement:  
"the (paper) record should withstand 5 hours exposure to 150C and -50C  
temperatures, exposure to direct Florida sunlight in an air atmosphere for 1 year, or soaking in water for 1 week followed by careful drying. It should withstand a 2 Tesla orientation-changing magnetic field for 1 minute."