- Value [1] Comprehension
- The basic mechanics of elections must be easily understandable to the entire electorate, and comprehensible by anyone with
an average intelligence commensurate with the age of voting eligibility, including voting, counting, canvassing, re-counting,
and creating election results. Therefore, the complexity of any technology that provides for any of these basic mechanics
must be sufficiently abstracted to a point where their operation is comprehensible by this same audience.
- Value [2] Purpose
- Any use of digital voting technology must be solely for the purpose of automating a part of an election system or process
that is already in place and well-understood in principle.3
- Value [3] Specificity
- Any digital voting component must be embodied in a specific device that is defined for a specific purpose in an existing election
system.
- Value [4] Compatibility
- Devices must be designed for application that is compatible with existing processes and procedures, without requiring technology-driven
changes that can undermine comprehension and confidence.
- Value [5] Assurance
- Devices must be readily assessable for their veracity; this means it performs all (and only) its required functions, with
a very high degree of integrity and resistance to inadvertent change, or tampering, or fraud.
- Value [6] Certification
- Devices must be able to be easily subjected to an independent certification process void of any vendor advice, direction,
influence, instruction, or participation, including meeting assurance assessments by the state or local election officials
that procure and operate digital voting technology.
- Value [7] Transparency
- Each certified high-assurance device must be able to be used in a transparent manner of conducting elections, where the processes
and results of the election are transparent, auditable, replicable (for either recount or audit), and publicly available.
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