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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Request for Substantive Comments on
the EAC’s Proposed Requirements for
Version 1.1 of the Voluntary Voting
System Guidelines (VVSG)
United States Election
Assistance Commission.
ACTION: Request for public comment on
proposed requirements for Version 1.1
of the Voluntary Voting System
Guidelines (VVSG).
AGENCY:
The Help America Vote Act of
2002 (HAVA) (Pub. L. 107–252; 42
U.S.C. 15301 et seq. (October 29, 2002))
established the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission (EAC). Section 202 of
HAVA directs the EAC to adopt
voluntary voting system guidelines
(VVSG) and to provide for the testing,
certification, decertification, and
recertification of voting system
hardware and software. The VVSG
provides specifications and standards
against which voting systems can be
tested to determine if they provide basic
functionality, accessibility, and security
capabilities. As required by Section 222
(d) of HAVA, the EAC is publishing a
set of proposed requirements (Voluntary
Voting System Guidelines, 1.1) for the
testing of voting systems for a 90 day
public comment period.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
The EAC made the decision to update
and revise the 2005 VVSG (also known
as VVSG 1.0) as a result of feedback
received through its Voting System
Testing and Certification Program. As
the EAC has worked to test and certify
voting systems it observed and received
feedback from various sources that the
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standards being tested to were at times
ambiguous and difficult to apply in
testing. This ambiguity led to challenges
in making testing consistent both within
a test laboratory and across test
campaigns at different laboratories. The
EAC also received feedback from the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) that the creation of
formalized test suites for the 2005 VVSG
would be aided by a clarification of
certain portions of document. This
information, combined with the EAC’s
issuance of thirty five interpretations of
the VVSG to clarify various standards,
led the EAC to propose improvements to
the 2005 VVSG. In addition, the EAC
determined to implement a number of
recommendations submitted by the
EAC’s Technical Guidelines
Development Committee (TGDC).
The TGDC held numerous public
meetings and subcommittee conference
calls to create a set of draft guidelines
for recommendation to the EAC (all
TGDC meeting materials can be found at
https://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/). On
August 17, 2007, the TGDC voted to
complete final edits of their
recommendations and submitted them
to the Executive Director of the EAC.
The EAC received the draft guidelines
from the TGDC on August 31, 2007.
After receipt of the TGDC’s
recommendations for the next iteration
(VVSG 2.0) of the VVSG the EAC
opened a one hundred and eighty day
public comment period. During this
comment period, which ran from
September 2007 to May 2008, the EAC
received comments praising many of the
proposed standards as being more
testable and less ambiguous than
previous versions of the standard. This
public comment period produced over
3000 comments on the
recommendations. In addition, during
the comment period the EAC conducted
a series of seven roundtable discussions
regarding the TGDC’s recommendations.
After the close of the public comment
period for the TGDC’s VVSG 2.0
recommendations and considering a
variety of relevant factors, the EAC
made the decision to first update and
revise the 2005 VVSG with portions of
the TGDC’s recommendations. This
serves as the basis for the creation of
VVSG 1.1.
As noted during the previous public
comment period for version VVSG 1.1,
by revising the guidelines now, the EAC
expects to improve the test process over
the short term for existing voting
systems while allowing additional time
to develop more complex revisions for
the requirements in VVSG 2.0 written
for the next generation of voting
systems. Topics currently undergoing
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continued research at NIST include
open ended vulnerability testing/
penetration testing, volume testing,
further development of the concept of
software independence and the
development (with IEEE Working Group
P1622 of a common data format for
voting systems.
Changes to VVSG 1.1 Since the Initial
Public Comment Period
The initial proposed revision to VVSG
1.1, was offered during a 120-day public
comment period in the summer of 2009.
Since that time, the EAC’s Testing &
Certification Program has discovered
additional best practices, experienced
anomalies and deficiencies with voting
systems entering the Testing and
Certification Program, and clarified
many ambiguities with the standard.
Changes were made after the 120-day
public comment period to address these
issues. Since the initial public
comment, changes were made to the
following areas:
Heading
Comment
Telecommunications .....................................................................................................................
NSRL ............................................................................................................................................
Software Validation .......................................................................................................................
Treated all results as official.
Removed all references.
Provided a secondary method of software validation not available in the 2005 VVSG.
Enhanced access control requirements based on
the two-tier access control model present in
today’s election equipment.
Combined sections 8 and 9 into a single section.
Access Control .............................................................................................................................
Quality Assurance and Configuration Management ....................................................................
Coding Convention
Required Languages ....................................................................................................................
Audit and Election Logging ..........................................................................................................
Additionally, the EAC included all
relevant Requests for Interpretations
(located at the EAC’s Web site) within
the latest draft of VVSG 1.1. Please be
aware that those sections added since
the close of the initial public comment
period for VVSG 1,1 are the only
sections that the EAC is accepting
comments on for this 90-day public
comment period.
Project Summary
Although both Volume 1 and Volume
2 of the VVSG 1.1 draft have undergone
revisions, and should be commented on,
we believe most commenter’s should
focus on the significant changes to
Volume 1 of the draft document. Major
sections of VVSG 1.1 Volume 1 revised
for this comment period include but are
not limited to:
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2.12 Accuracy
2.1.4 Integrity
2.1.5.1 Operational Requirements
2.3.1 Opening the Polls
2.3.3.3 DRE and EBM System
requirements
2.4.1 Closing the Polls
2.4.4.2 Tabulator electronic reports
3.2.2.1 Editable electronic ballot
interfaces
3.2.5 Visual display characteristics
3.3.2 Enhanced visual interfaces
3.3.4 Enhanced input and control
characteristics
4.1.1 Accuracy requirements
4.1.2 Environmental requirements
4.1.2.4 Electrical supply
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4.1.5.2 Ballot reading accuracy
4.3.3 Reliability
5.2.1 Scope (Software requirements)
5.2.2 Selection of programming
languages
5.2.4 Software modularity and
programming
5.2.5 Structured programming
5.2.8 Error checking
5.5 Vote secrecy on DRE and EBM
systems
6.2.2 Durability (Telecommunications)
6.2.3 Reliability
7.1 Scope (Security requirements)
7.2 Access control
7.3 Physical security measures
7.4.4 Software distribution
7.4.5 Software reference information
7.4.6 Software setup validation
7.5.1 Maintaining data integrity
7.5.5 Election returns
7.7.3 Protecting transmitted data
7.8.2 Approve or void the paper record
7.8.3 Electronic and paper record
structure
8 Quality Assurance and Configuration
Management (all)
All changes made since the last public
comment period are highlighted in
yellow in the version published on the
EAC’s Web site and in the Federal
Register.
The U.S. Election Assistance
Commission (EAC) lacks a quorum of
commissioners since the resignation of
Commissioner Gracia Hillman on
December 10, 2010. The EAC lost its
two remaining commissioners in
December 2011, with the resignations of
Commissioners Gineen Bresso and
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Required all systems to officially support at least
one ideographic language.
Enhanced and strengthen logging requirements
by providing greater clarity and specific, especially for election logs.
Donetta Davidson. Because HAVA
requires an affirmative vote of the
Commission (Section 222(d)), all
comments received will be reviewed
and published as noted below. The final
VVSG 1.1 draft document will be
prepared for a Commission vote at such
time as the EAC once again has a
quorum of Commissioners.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before 4 p.m. EST on December 5,
2012.
Submission of Comments: The public
may submit comments through one of
the two different methods provided by
the EAC: (1) Email submissions to
votingsystemguidelines@eac.gov; (2) by
mail to Voluntary Voting System
Guidelines Comments, U.S. Election
Assistance Commission, 1201 New York
Ave. NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC
20005.
In order to allow efficient and
effective review of comments the EAC
requests that:
(1) Comments refer to the specific
section that is the subject of the
comment.
(2) General comments regarding the
entire document or comments that refer
to more than one section be made as
specifically as possible so that EAC can
clearly understand to which portion(s)
of the documents the comment refers.
(3) To the extent that a comment
suggests a change in the wording of a
requirement or section of the guidelines,
please provide proposed language for
the suggested change.
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All comments submitted will be
published at the end of the comment
period on the EAC’s Web site at
www.eac.gov. This publication and
request for comment is not required
under the rulemaking, adjudicative, or
licensing provisions of the
Administrative Procedures Act (APA). It
is a voluntary effort by the EAC to
gather input from the public on the
EAC’s administrative procedures for
certifying voting systems to be used in
pilot projects. Furthermore, this request
by the EAC for public comment is not
intended to make any of the APA’s
rulemaking provisions applicable to
development of this or future EAC
procedural programs.
An electronic copy of the proposed
guidance may be found on the EAC’s
Web site at https://www.eac.gov/open/
comment.aspx.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Hancock, Phone (202) 566–3100,
email votingsystemguidelines@eac.gov.
Alice P. Miller,
Chief Operating Officer and Acting Executive
Director, U.S. Election Assistance
Commission.
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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Request for Substantive Comments on the EAC's Proposed
Requirements for Version 1.1 of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
(VVSG)
AGENCY: United States Election Assistance Commission.
ACTION: Request for public comment on proposed requirements for Version
1.1 of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG).
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SUMMARY: The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) (Pub. L. 107-252; 42
U.S.C. 15301 et seq. (October 29, 2002)) established the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission (EAC). Section 202 of HAVA directs the EAC to
adopt voluntary voting system guidelines (VVSG) and to provide for the
testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting
system hardware and software. The VVSG provides specifications and
standards against which voting systems can be tested to determine if
they provide basic functionality, accessibility, and security
capabilities. As required by Section 222 (d) of HAVA, the EAC is
publishing a set of proposed requirements (Voluntary Voting System
Guidelines, 1.1) for the testing of voting systems for a 90 day public
comment period.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The EAC made the decision to update and revise the 2005 VVSG (also
known as VVSG 1.0) as a result of feedback received through its Voting
System Testing and Certification Program. As the EAC has worked to test
and certify voting systems it observed and received feedback from
various sources that the standards being tested to were at times
ambiguous and difficult to apply in testing. This ambiguity led to
challenges in making testing consistent both within a test laboratory
and across test campaigns at different laboratories. The EAC also
received feedback from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) that the creation of formalized test suites for the
2005 VVSG would be aided by a clarification of certain portions of
document. This information, combined with the EAC's issuance of thirty
five interpretations of the VVSG to clarify various standards, led the
EAC to propose improvements to the 2005 VVSG. In addition, the EAC
determined to implement a number of recommendations submitted by the
EAC's Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC).
The TGDC held numerous public meetings and subcommittee conference
calls to create a set of draft guidelines for recommendation to the EAC
(all TGDC meeting materials can be found at https://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/). On August 17, 2007, the TGDC voted to complete final edits of
their recommendations and submitted them to the Executive Director of
the EAC. The EAC received the draft guidelines from the TGDC on August
31, 2007.
After receipt of the TGDC's recommendations for the next iteration
(VVSG 2.0) of the VVSG the EAC opened a one hundred and eighty day
public comment period. During this comment period, which ran from
September 2007 to May 2008, the EAC received comments praising many of
the proposed standards as being more testable and less ambiguous than
previous versions of the standard. This public comment period produced
over 3000 comments on the recommendations. In addition, during the
comment period the EAC conducted a series of seven roundtable
discussions regarding the TGDC's recommendations. After the close of
the public comment period for the TGDC's VVSG 2.0 recommendations and
considering a variety of relevant factors, the EAC made the decision to
first update and revise the 2005 VVSG with portions of the TGDC's
recommendations. This serves as the basis for the creation of VVSG 1.1.
As noted during the previous public comment period for version VVSG
1.1, by revising the guidelines now, the EAC expects to improve the
test process over the short term for existing voting systems while
allowing additional time to develop more complex revisions for the
requirements in VVSG 2.0 written for the next generation of voting
systems. Topics currently undergoing
[[Page 54906]]
continued research at NIST include open ended vulnerability testing/
penetration testing, volume testing, further development of the concept
of software independence and the development (with IEEE Working Group
P1622 of a common data format for voting systems.
Changes to VVSG 1.1 Since the Initial Public Comment Period
The initial proposed revision to VVSG 1.1, was offered during a
120-day public comment period in the summer of 2009. Since that time,
the EAC's Testing & Certification Program has discovered additional
best practices, experienced anomalies and deficiencies with voting
systems entering the Testing and Certification Program, and clarified
many ambiguities with the standard. Changes were made after the 120-day
public comment period to address these issues. Since the initial public
comment, changes were made to the following areas:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Heading Comment
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Telecommunications...................... Treated all results as official.
NSRL.................................... Removed all references.
Software Validation..................... Provided a secondary method of software validation not available in
the 2005 VVSG.
Access Control.......................... Enhanced access control requirements based on the two-tier access
control model present in today's election equipment.
Quality Assurance and Configuration Combined sections 8 and 9 into a single section.
Management.
Coding Convention
Required Languages...................... Required all systems to officially support at least one ideographic
language.
Audit and Election Logging.............. Enhanced and strengthen logging requirements by providing greater
clarity and specific, especially for election logs.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Additionally, the EAC included all relevant Requests for
Interpretations (located at the EAC's Web site) within the latest draft
of VVSG 1.1. Please be aware that those sections added since the close
of the initial public comment period for VVSG 1,1 are the only sections
that the EAC is accepting comments on for this 90-day public comment
period.
Project Summary
Although both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the VVSG 1.1 draft have
undergone revisions, and should be commented on, we believe most
commenter's should focus on the significant changes to Volume 1 of the
draft document. Major sections of VVSG 1.1 Volume 1 revised for this
comment period include but are not limited to:
Volume 1
2.12 Accuracy
2.1.4 Integrity
2.1.5.1 Operational Requirements
2.3.1 Opening the Polls
2.3.3.3 DRE and EBM System requirements
2.4.1 Closing the Polls
2.4.4.2 Tabulator electronic reports
3.2.2.1 Editable electronic ballot interfaces
3.2.5 Visual display characteristics
3.3.2 Enhanced visual interfaces
3.3.4 Enhanced input and control characteristics
4.1.1 Accuracy requirements
4.1.2 Environmental requirements
4.1.2.4 Electrical supply
4.1.5.2 Ballot reading accuracy
4.3.3 Reliability
5.2.1 Scope (Software requirements)
5.2.2 Selection of programming languages
5.2.4 Software modularity and programming
5.2.5 Structured programming
5.2.8 Error checking
5.5 Vote secrecy on DRE and EBM systems
6.2.2 Durability (Telecommunications)
6.2.3 Reliability
7.1 Scope (Security requirements)
7.2 Access control
7.3 Physical security measures
7.4.4 Software distribution
7.4.5 Software reference information
7.4.6 Software setup validation
7.5.1 Maintaining data integrity
7.5.5 Election returns
7.7.3 Protecting transmitted data
7.8.2 Approve or void the paper record
7.8.3 Electronic and paper record structure
8 Quality Assurance and Configuration Management (all)
All changes made since the last public comment period are
highlighted in yellow in the version published on the EAC's Web site
and in the Federal Register.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) lacks a quorum of
commissioners since the resignation of Commissioner Gracia Hillman on
December 10, 2010. The EAC lost its two remaining commissioners in
December 2011, with the resignations of Commissioners Gineen Bresso and
Donetta Davidson. Because HAVA requires an affirmative vote of the
Commission (Section 222(d)), all comments received will be reviewed and
published as noted below. The final VVSG 1.1 draft document will be
prepared for a Commission vote at such time as the EAC once again has a
quorum of Commissioners.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before 4 p.m. EST on December 5,
2012.
Submission of Comments: The public may submit comments through one
of the two different methods provided by the EAC: (1) Email submissions
to votingsystemguidelines@eac.gov; (2) by mail to Voluntary Voting
System Guidelines Comments, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 1201
New York Ave. NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005.
In order to allow efficient and effective review of comments the
EAC requests that:
(1) Comments refer to the specific section that is the subject of
the comment.
(2) General comments regarding the entire document or comments that
refer to more than one section be made as specifically as possible so
that EAC can clearly understand to which portion(s) of the documents
the comment refers.
(3) To the extent that a comment suggests a change in the wording
of a requirement or section of the guidelines, please provide proposed
language for the suggested change.
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All comments submitted will be published at the end of the comment
period on the EAC's Web site at www.eac.gov. This publication and
request for comment is not required under the rulemaking, adjudicative,
or licensing provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). It
is a voluntary effort by the EAC to gather input from the public on the
EAC's administrative procedures for certifying voting systems to be
used in pilot projects. Furthermore, this request by the EAC for public
comment is not intended to make any of the APA's rulemaking provisions
applicable to development of this or future EAC procedural programs.
An electronic copy of the proposed guidance may be found on the
EAC's Web site at https://www.eac.gov/open/comment.aspx.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Hancock, Phone (202) 566-3100,
email votingsystemguidelines@eac.gov.
Alice P. Miller,
Chief Operating Officer and Acting Executive Director, U.S. Election
Assistance Commission.
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