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| | Name : | Jordi Puiggali | Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting | Post Date : | 9/9/2005 |
| Section : | .20.1.6 | Page no. : | | Line no.: | | Comment : | Section 1 National Certification Testing Guidelines
4.1.1. General Considerations
The testing process described in Section 1.6 (Voting Equipment Submitted by Vendor) states that
() “…vendors shall submit for testing the specific system configuration that will be offered to
jurisdictions or that comprises the component to be marketed plus the other components with
which the vendor recommends that the component be used”. This requirement forces vendors of
security components, such as IDV systems, to integrate their solutions with at least one voting
system vendor before submiting their solution to any qualification test. As a result, IDV vendors
depend on voting system vendors to qualify their solutions which can limit the development and
adoption of innovative IDV solutions.
In our opinion, the testing standards should allow IDV systems to be qualified independently from a
voting system through a pre-qualification process. This pre-qualification should be exclusively
based on the security requirements of the IDV systems and should not substitute the overall voting
system qualification once the IDV system is finally integrated with a particular voting system. The
pre-qualification process for IDV systems could facilitate the adoption of security improvements
since it would allow States and Counties to make sure that an IDV system fulfils the VVSG
requirements without the need of integrating that IDV system with its voting equipment.
To this end, we suggest that the Guidelines include provisions for the certification of IDV systems
independent from voting systems. | |
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