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Name :   Sue Sautermeister
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/15/2005

Section Comments
Section :  1.3.1.4
Page no. :  6
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Comment :  The Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) is an exhaustive verification of every system function and combination of functions cited in the vendor’s documentation. Through use, the FCA verifies the accuracy and completeness of the system TDP. The various options of software counting logic that are claimed in the vendor’s documentation shall be tested during the system-level FCA. Generic test ballots or test entry data for DRE systems, representing particular sequences of ballot-counting events, will test the counting logic during this audit.

Should TDP be defined here?  It is later on, but I think this may be the first reference to it

1.5 does define the abbreviation