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Name :   David Dill
Organization :   Verified Voting Foundation
Post Date :   9/30/2005

Glossary Comments
Glossary Term :  Electronic Ballot Printer (EBP)
Definition :  
Comment :  DRE-like device that fully prints paper-based ballots with selected vote choices for tabulation by a separate ballot scanner.
Association: voting
Source: IEEE 1583

The use of “DRE-like” is imprecise, since it fails to indicate whether an EBP possess all or only some of the characteristics of a DRE, and, if the latter, which ones it has in common. In
particular, it does not indicate whether or not an EBP maintains its own, independent cast vote record and vote tabulation that results from the “selected vote choices” (as would a
DRE), or whether an EBP simply uses an “Electronic Voter Interface” (similar to what is
used by both DREs and EBMs) to capture the “selected vote choices”. Alternatively, an
EBP might be a device similar to an EBM, except that instead of marking the voter’s selections onto a preprinted paper ballot, it prints both the image of the unmarked ballot
along with the markings that correspond to the voter’s selections.