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My take on the current situation.
There is one major thing that has emerged and thrown a monkey wrench into our standard since it isn't covered. It is the existence and the active marketing of a new configuration of voting unit. This type of unit does all that the traditional DRE unit does except to store and tabulate ballots; certainly a significant distinction. Its output is a paper ballot that requires a separate traditional optical scan unit to read and tabulate the ballot content. One example of this type of unit is the AutoMark which can be a companion to the Diebold AccuVote, the ES&S M100, the ES&S/Sequoia Eagle and an optical scan version of a punch card ballot tabulator. It contains its own election definition that must match the election definition in the ballot scanner. It is activated by inserting the same optical scan ballot that can be directly voted by hand and determines the ballot style to be used by reading the ballot identification code from the ballot. This configuration is not covered by either the FEC 2002 standard or ours.
I propose that:
· We define a new acronym and unit designation for this configuration and not attempt to redefine the "DRE" since it has an existing connotation that has existed for a long time. My suggestion is Electronic Vote Recorder (EVR). This (or whatever designation we agree upon) should be added to the definitions.
· We should develop our characteristics matrix and create a table of applicable requirements sections from the draft that we can either put in the beginning of Section 6.0 as a testing guide or make it an annex and reference it.