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What about just "Vote Recording Machine"? Or "Ballot-Marking System"? I actually read this last one as a reference to Auto Mark.
These names seem to me to represent well the group of machines that only allow vote marking.
I am not sure if this function has been discussed prior to my joining the group: the automatic verification of the voter's registration. This verification is actually an important step of the voting procedures and in Europe some of the voting machines being tested have a mechanism to verify if the voter is indeed registered in the respective precinct and therefore if the person has the right to vote and can cast her vote on the machine. Once the voter is identified as a bonafide one the machine erases any connection between the voter and the ballot just being cast. (I agree that we have to have faith / trust on the hardware and software....)
In some other tested setups, there are an automated verification of the voter registration done by a separate machine (this is the case in Brazil for instance: the voter's list subset corresponding to each precinct is loaded on small machines to be used by the polling officers to verify the registration / voter card).
On Annex C: Analysis of the Requirements of HAVA to 2002 FEC VSS, the reference to section 303.a refers to a "Computerized Statewide Voter Registration List Requirements" but then indicates that it is beyond the IEEE P1583 standard.
Of course, to automate the verification of a voter's registration there is a need to have a computerized registration list, but these are two different operations and, in my view, the verification at the polling station or eventually via Internet is part of a voting system (I mean by voting system the set of machines that can perform several of the steps of voting operation).
It is late and I just hope that I am making some sense.
Helena
Maria Helena Alves
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