Comment by Karen McBride (Advocacy Group)

Based on my extensive reading and the actual experience of several states in the US, it's been shown that the direct recording electronic voting system does not necessarily provide a means of recording and recovering voter intent, since it relies on the dependability of software. It's been proven that compter systems can malfunction or be deliberately corrupted at any stage of their design, manufacture and use. Thus,I believe and urge you to concur that "software independence," (SI), is an important advance toward verifiable voting and should be remain part of the federal guidelines for voting systems. Thank you.