Comment by Donna Mummery (Advocacy Group)

Even if this document is made available to the public for comments, the EAC is still being allowed to issue the final version. After the EAC's performance in allowing Ciber to continue "testing" voting machines even when it had been decertified by EAC, I have little confidence in letting EAC determine the final version. The New York State Board of Elections was shocked that EAC had never told them Ciber was decertified even though Ciber was under contract to test NYS voting machines. The National Institute of Statistics and Technology is much more credible as their report on voting machines said that no software should ever be allowed to count votes. We should be using paper ballots with optical scanners to count them, they advised.