Re: Report on EVM Rating Workshop

We are not oblivious to the privacy issue with barcodes on the
ballot. Section 5.5 of our privacy paper discusses that very issue.

Best regards,
Arthur

At 5:19 PM -0400 6/13/06, Lillie Coney wrote:
>Arnold it was a pleasure meeting you at the workshop.
>
>I did want to concur that there are privacy and transparency
>issues associated with the use of barcodes on physical ballots.
>
>The barcode is not human friendly and is produced at the time
>the vote is captured. This creates two of areas of concern:
>the voter only has the assurances of the administrator that no
>identifying information is contained on the ballot, and that
>the votes represented on the bardcode are in fact their choices.
>Transparency challenges are real, but the federal standards
>process has not lent itself to voter access to the ballot barcode
>information.
>
>The following is an excerpt from the transcript on the use
>of barcode readers by voters, while in the privacy of the voting
>cubical. The transcript is from the last meeting of the TGDC
>on their recommendations for voluntary voting standards.
>
>http://www.epic.org/privacy/voting/foia/davidson1.pdf
>
>Full Transcript http://www.epic.org/privacy/voting/foia/tgdc042005.rtf
>
>Thank you for the notes from the meeting.
>
>Lillie
>
>>5. A couple of participants expressed concern about the lack of
>>transparency associated with the use of bar codes on ballots.
>
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>Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
>Coordinator, National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI)
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