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

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Comment :  Note: inconsistency about using a comma before the last item when using the word “or”; sometimes there’s a comma, sometimes not
(see configuration and conformity for the variation in usage)
Another example:  
Electronically-Assisted Ballot Marker (EBM):  Machines that provide assistance to voters who are visually impaired, who have difficulty reading English, or in other cases where a voter has difficulty correctly marking by hand a preprinted paper ballot that is to be counted in optical scan systems. The device marks, or helps to

Information Security: Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide integrity, confidentiality, and availability.
Ranked order has comma problem with “or”
The practice is also known as instant runoff voting, preferences or preferential voting, or choice voting.
Standard
Standard, testing
Standard on Data to Be Provided
Voting Equipment

Note: this comma usage error is found in all sections so a determination needs to be made as to how and where the comma and the word “or” will be used