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Name :   David B. Aragon
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

Section Comments
Section :  5.2.6
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Comment :  §5.2.6 Integrity  

5.2.6c presently reads:  
"The system shall be designed and configured such that it is not vulnerable to a single point of failure in the connection to the public network causing total 1055 of voting capabilities at any polling place."
 
This is a more stringent requirement than the reader may at first appreciate. A single DSL line or broadband cable can certainly be a "single point of failure". If this means that a polling place must have a minimum of two such lines, this fact should be explicitly called out in the text. As to cable, it is a shared medium and so, if the failure is at the cable, then having two cable modems making supposedly separate connections to the cable will be of no help.