Voting System Standards, Volume 1: Performance Standards

摘要

State and local officials today are confronted with increasingly complex voting system technology and an increased risk of voting system failure. Responding to calls for assistance from the states, the United States Congress authorized the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to develop voluntary national voting systems standards for computer-based systems. The resulting FEC Voting System Standards ('the Standards') seek to aid state and local election officials in ensuring that new voting systems are designed to function accurately and reliably, thus ensuring the system's integrity. States are free to adopt the Standards in whole or in part. States may also choose to enact stricter performance requirements for systems used in their jurisdictions.